Blackburne House, as a long standing women’s organisation, chose to contribute to the Windrush events in Liverpool 2019 with a documentary film, ‘Daughters Of the Windrush: The Descendants’ Stories’, ...

The Walker Art Gallery has announced Kathryn Maple the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2020 with her vibrant work, The Common. A large, figurative work, Kathryn describes the painting as ...

Dr Kate O'Donoghue explains Queen Anne's relationships with women and how they suggest things were more than just platonic.

Between 1783 and 1865, authorities in Charleston, South Carolina released license tags, at a fee, to enslavers to hire out people they had enslaved for profit. While slave-hiring had existed prior to ...

To celebrate the Gender Stories exhibition at Walker Art Gallery, we invited DJ, drag artist, and all-around creative Dan Chan to put together a mix for us. Their selection is a celebration of Queer ...

Produced in partnership with The Black-E, this youth-led, movement-based performance project for ages 12–19, is a week-long summer school. Exploring legacy, identity, and rites of passage, ...

Iconic designs by Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant and Laura Ashley are being showcased in a new display celebrating costume, jewellery and decorative objects made by female designers. Creating Visions: ...

The bombing of Merseyside during the Second World War reached its peak in the seven night Blitz of 1-7 May 1941. This 'May Blitz' was the most concentrated series of air attacks on any British city ...

This apocalyptic vision, inspired by Thomas Campbell’s poem of 1823 describing a future world in which only one human being is left alive, shows a deserted city divided from the rocks to the right by ...

Cotman painted this romantic scene of rustic domestic life at the Black Boy Inn at Hurley on Thames. It shows a farmer (posed by the inn keeper) returning home for his meal, while his horse leans ...

This statuette depicts the mythical figure of Hermaphroditus. The figure has characteristically female facial features and breasts but typically male genitalia. In classical mythology, Hermaphroditus ...

FIHRM encourages museums that are engaging with sensitive or controversial human rights themes to share ways of working, new thinking and initiatives in a supportive environment.