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Europe's peasantry has undergone much upheaval over the centuries. From their rise in the Middle Ages after the fall of the Roman Empire, to oppression by the nobility and the church, to struggles for freedom and modernisation in the modern era. Peasants and farmers have played an active role in political upheavals across the ages. Today, the farming sector faces new challenges due to technological changes and climate crisis.

The turbulent history of the people that work the land, from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day.

Ploughing Tilling Fighting: A History of Peasants

After the death of Alexei Navalny, Russian dissidents are still resolved to fight for freedom: Investigative journalists Irina Dolinina and Roman Anin, exiled in Prague uncover the truth about the Russian mobilisation and historian and Robert Latypov carries out vital work at the Research Centre for Eastern European studies in Bremen.

After the death of Alexei Navalny, Russian dissidents are still resolved to fight for freedom from abroad.

Re: Russian Exiles against Putin

Young Mařenka is madly in love with Jeník, but her father has a better catch in mind for her... From Prague’s National Theatre, Czech film and stage director Alice Nellis revisits Bedřich Smetana’s iconic opera.

Czech National Theatre, Prague

Czech film and stage director Alice Nellis revisits Smetana’s iconic opera at Prague’s National Theatre.

Bedřich Smetana: The Bartered Bride

Two thousand years after the fact, can we really say that Messalina and Agrippina, two empresses of Roman antiquity, were the criminals and depraved women described by chroniclers of the time?

Messalina vs Agrippina

Were the two empresses of Roman antiquity really the criminals and depraved women described by chroniclers of the time?

Duels of History

Nine women under the age of 25 in France were killed by their partners or ex-partners in 2022. The youngest was only 13 years old. Journalist Camélia Kheiredine set out to meet Luna and Romane, two survivors of domestic violence who were only teenagers at the time.

This documentary series by France.tv Slash is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR, RTBF and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

As Luna and Romane can testify, domestic violence affects women of all ages.

Domestic violence among teens

A triumphant return to the road for Josh Homme's mighty band, with a new album in tow. In Times New Roman marks the first new music to come from the Queens since 2017. The world may have changed considerably since then but Homme's crew remain as indefinable, majestic and heavy rocking as ever. Don't miss this incendiary set from Lyon's Nuits des Fourvières festival. 

Nuits de Fourvière 2023

Queens of the Stone Age are back out on the road and ready to remind Europe of their heavy rock majesty. 

Queens of the Stone Age

While the shipping container is instantly recognisable in today's era of globalisation, its ancestor in Greco-Roman Antiquity looked very different: it was the amphora. Patrick Boucheron and the historian Sarah Rey reveal the secrets and meanings behind this "simple" terracotta object.

The Amphora

While the shipping container is instantly recognisable in today's era of globalisation, its ancestor in Greco-Roman Antiquity looked very different: it was the amphora

Making History

These aren't doodles: Art Spiegelman or Marjane Satrapi's books are pieces of literary art. Without boxes or bubbles, the graphic novel is now a major genre in publishing. Graphic novels have an unlikely origin story: the genre emerged from woodcutting.

The Origin Story of the Graphic Novel

These aren't doodles: Art Spiegelman or Marjane Satrapi's books are pieces of literary art

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