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We started the project in 2017, on a bus home from a Womens March.

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2024-10-20 08:39:58

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it varied from country to country but political prisoners were allowed to wear their own clothes, have more books etc.
The suffragettes in the UK were denied the status, went on hunger strike and were force-fed.
It was about forcing the state to acknowledge they had been locked up for their political beliefs, and not for breaching criminal laws. So it was about trying to get the cause of suffrage recognised as a political cause.

2024-09-28 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 28 Sept 1865, Elizabeth Garrett passes her medical exams to become the first woman to be a qualified doctor in Britain. Of the three candidates to pass the exams, Garrett scored the highest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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2024-09-19 09:55:02

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wait till you see when Swiss women got it!

2024-09-19 02:00:06

#OnThisDay, 19 Sept 1893, the Electoral Act is signed into New Zealand (Aotearoa) law. All women over 21 who were 'British subjects', including Māori women, gain the right to vote.
Over 90,000 women vote in November 1893.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #NZHistory #Histodons
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2024-09-18 07:52:12

Very early #OnThisDay, 18 Sept 1943, Yolande Beekman arrives in Nazi-occupied France to work as a radio operator for the Special Operations Executive.
The British SOE supported the French Resistance. Wireless was one of the more dangerous roles as German forces could triangulate the position when the operator was signalling.
Beekman was captured in January 1944, and was shot at Dachau concentration camp in September 1944.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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2024-09-18 07:45:25

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I think most people in Wales can pronounce and spell it.

2024-09-16 08:00:02

#OnThisDay, 16 Sept 1915, the first Women’s Institute meeting in the UK is held in Llanfairpwll, Angelsey.
The organisation is still active. Their aim is to inspire and educate women but they are also known for their jam-making.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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2024-09-15 08:00:02

#OnThisDay, 15 Sept 1853, Antoinette Brown Blackwell is ordained as a pastor in the First Congregational Church, becoming the first woman pastor of a recognised church in the USA.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-09-14 02:00:03

#OnThisDay, 14 Sept 2010, Julia Gillard is sworn in again as the Prime Minister of Australia. She becomes the first woman elected into the role by the general public, having previously been promoted into it in a party leadership contest.
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2024-09-13 03:00:05

#OnThisDay, 13 Sept 1933, Elizabeth McCombs wins a by-election to become New Zealand's first female MP. She pushed for equal pay for women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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2024-09-12 16:36:59

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Thanks to a follower over on BlueSky for highlighting a children’s book about her: https://astrapublishinghouse.com/product/pedal-balance-steer-9781635926828/

2024-09-12 08:30:08

#OnThisDay, 12 Sept 1981, Margarethe von Trotta wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for 'Marianne and Juliane (Die Bleierne Zeit)'.
She was the first woman director to win the award since it started in 1949.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReclaimTheFrame #Histodons
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2024-09-12 08:00:06

#OnThisDay, 12 Sept 1895, Annie Londonderry arrived in Chicago, Illinois, and claimed a $10,000 prize for being the first woman to bicycle around the world.
Exactly how much she cycled and how much was travelling by boat or train with her bicycle is hard to tell as she embellished the story of her ride.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CyclingHistory #Histodons
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2024-09-11 08:00:02

#OnThisDay, 11 Sept 2010, Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for 'Somewhere'.
She was the fourth woman director to have ever won the award since it started in 1949. Of the seven women to have won the prize, three have won it since 2020.
#ReclaimTheFrame #WomenInFilm
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2024-09-10 08:00:08

#OnThisDay, 10 Sept 1972, American Doreen Wilber wins Olympic gold in women's archery. It’s the first time archery has been included in the Games since 1920.
Wilber took up the sport after her husband was given an archery set. For a decade, she never lost a competition at State level, and set national or world records 18 times.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons
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2024-09-09 16:40:58

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just drop us a note here. Sources are wonderful but name and achievement gives us a starting point. We add them to a trello board and look at it once a month or so.

2024-09-09 15:46:09

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Rule 7.
We will take breaks. A break in posting either means a gap in the data files (only about six of them left) or Real Life Shit got in the way.
Thank you for following. Onwards into autumn we go!
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2024-09-09 15:46:03

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Rule 6.
Images will be as contemporary as feasible, and will have alt text. We love a bit of newsreel.
If we have no good image we will skip it, or do something else. Like the woman who got a patent for flat bottomed paper bag machines, where we use a cat gif instead.
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2024-09-09 15:45:57

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Rule 5.
We don't do detailed descriptions of the violence some of the women we feature endured. Or do events like witch trials.
If you want to know what happened to captured SOE women, use wikipedia. We are not dropping that into your feeds when you're scrolling over your morning coffee.
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2024-09-09 15:45:51

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Rule 4.
Women in history are as complex as the men. We may add some modern commentary on some (regnant queens were as bloodthirsty as the kings) but we're not writing essays every day.
Assume most women will be more complicated than can fit into 300 characters, because most people are.
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2024-09-09 15:45:43

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Rule 3.
Deeds from before 2000 will be hashtagged for history feeds. Deeds after that won't.
Where someone is still alive, a quick check on whether they are actively harming people is done. This means some posts have been retired. We appreciate warnings if the checks missed something but
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2024-09-09 15:45:37

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Rule 2.
Posts are in the active tense, using the formation:
[name] [verb] [deed]
Joan of Arc led French troops into an assault on Orleans.
A group of 26 women arrive at Greenham Common where they form a peace camp.
Etc
This is making the woman/women the active participants.
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2024-09-09 15:45:32

Now the UK is well and truly back in school, here's a mini-thread on how we pick and draft posts!
Our number one rule is we need a verifiable date for something a woman did. We don't do birthdays. We only sometimes do deathdays.
This was a very silly rule as it has meant a lot more work.
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2024-09-09 14:59:39

#OnThisDay, 9 Sept 1966, Constance Baker Motley became the first Black woman to be a US federal judge when she was sworn in.
She'd been the first female Black lawyer to argue a case at the Supreme Court in 1962. And she’d been the first woman to be president of the borough of Manhattan in 1965.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-09-07 09:18:55

#OnThisDay, 7 Sept 2009, Lubna Ahmed Hussein is sent to jail for a month in Sudan after refusing to pay a fine.
She'd been found guilty of “dressing indecently” by... wearing trousers.
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2024-09-07 08:45:30

#OnThisDay, 7 Sept 1985, French film director Agnès Varda wins the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for her film Sans Toit Ni Loi (Vagabond). She was only the second woman to lift the award since it began in the 1940s.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReclaimTheFrame #Histodons
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2024-09-06 08:30:02

#OnThisDay, 6 Sept 2013, American Marin Alsop becomes the first woman to conduct the Last Night of the Proms in London.
The Promenades (“Proms”) were established in 1895 to encourage a love of orchestral music. Since 1927, the BBC have organised and broadcast the concerts. The last night of the proms is the most high profile concert, with a lot of flag-waving and singing along.
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2024-09-06 08:00:02

#OnThisDay, 6 Sept 1870, Louisa Swain votes in Wyoming. She is the first woman to vote in a US general election as the state had given women the vote.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen
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2024-09-05 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 5 Sept 1981, the first 36 women arrive at Greenham Common, England, after a 10 day 'Women for Life on Earth' march from Wales.
Some of the women stayed, and the Peace Camp that was formed remained until 2000.
[photo (c) PeaceMuseumUK and GlamorganArchives]
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-29 08:00:05

#OnThisDay, 29 Aug 1930, the last 36 St Kildan islanders left for the Scottish mainland.
Williamina Barclay was the island's nurse and had raised their request to leave. She then oversaw the evacuation as the government's representative on the island.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #ScottishHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-28 08:00:18

#OnThisDay, 28 Aug 1917, ten of the Silent Sentinels are arrested outside the US White House.
The sentinels were campaigning for women's suffrage, and picketed the White House for two and a half years. Many were assaulted, arrested or jailed during their protest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen
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2024-08-27 08:00:06

#OnThisDay, 27 Aug 1927, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby sign a letter to the government of Canada. It starts the “Persons case” that decides whether a woman legally counted as a person or not.
The case finds women are ‘persons’, and eventually leads to women being appointed to the Canadian Senate.
The women who started the case become known as “the famous five”.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-26 15:19:21

#OnThisDay, 26 Aug 1970, the Women's Strike for Equality marches through New York City, USA. Estimates vary on numbers, with between10 and 20 thousand people taking part in a call for peace and equality.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-25 11:30:49

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It was 1896 so she might have been riding a "safety bicycle" rather than a penny farthing, but the language of the day still reflected the earlier bikes?

2024-08-25 11:26:50

#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1932, Amelia Earhart successfully lands in Newark, New Jersey, to become the first woman to fly solo across the USA.
Earhart records a series of first flights by a woman, before disappearing during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons
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2024-08-25 11:21:20

#OnThisDay, 25 Aug 1804, Alicia Meynell (aka Alicia Thornton) races at York races in England. Side-saddle.
She is now recognised as the first woman racing jockey.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #SportsHistory
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2024-08-24 14:45:05

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Probably bloomers. Cycling was a driver of dress reform.
https://www.bustle.com/p/the-feminist-history-of-bicycles-57455

2024-08-24 14:44:06

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well, no.
Women in history did do stuff, and cycling was a proto-feminist activity.
https://www.bustle.com/p/the-feminist-history-of-bicycles-57455

2024-08-24 11:39:34

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one of us also grew up nearby and could probably recognise the Bass logo before we could write.

2024-08-24 08:30:27

#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1950, Edith Sampson becomes the first Black American delegate to the United Nations.
Sampson had been a social worker before becoming a lawyer. She went on to be the first Black woman to be elected as a judge in Illinois.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-24 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.
Chapeau!
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-23 09:38:01

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After the war, Hall received a Distinguished Service Cross (US), an MBE (UK), and a Croix de Guerre (France).
She joined the CIA in 1947, one of the first women to do so, but was side-lined as her extensive experience threatened her less experienced male colleagues.
She retired in 1966.
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2024-08-23 09:37:53

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Back in London, Hall requested the SOE send her back to France. They refused as she was compromised as an agent.
So she took a wireless course and convinced the American Office of Strategic Services to send her back in March 1944.
She operated as an agent until April 1945.
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2024-08-23 09:37:47

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Hall got a train from Lyon to Perpignan, close to the closed border between France and Spain. Then she set out on foot.
With a local guide from the escape line, she walked fifty miles in two days, over the Pyrenees mountains. The pass they used was 7,500 feet high.
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2024-08-23 09:37:41

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She signalled London, saying she hoped Cuthbert - her false leg - would not be a problem on the escape.
London, unaware of Cuthbert's identity, replied:
"If Cuthbert troublesome, eliminate him."
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2024-08-23 09:37:35

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Based in Lyon in Vichy France, as well as the usual SOE agent tasks of gathering information and distributing equipment, Hall also ran an escape line for downed Allied airmen, getting them across the Pyrenees and into neutral Spain.
In November 1942, Germany began to occupy Vichy France ahead of the Allied North African campaign. Hall decided it was time to run.
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2024-08-23 09:37:29

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Hall, with her knowledge of languages and of Europe, was recruited.
She returned to France by boat, with a cover story that she was working for the New York Post. She was only the second woman they sent into the field. The SOE would eventually send 41 women to France, of whom 26 survived.
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2024-08-23 09:37:23

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When Germany invaded France, Hall became an ambulance driver for the French army.
When France fell, she fled to Spain where a chance meeting sent her to the newly formed Special Operations Executive in London. The British SOE supported the work of the French resistance.
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2024-08-23 09:37:17

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She was fitted with a wooden prosthetic, which she nicknamed Cuthbert. Cuthbert meant she limped.
She continued her career as a consulate clerk. Her multiple requests to become a diplomat were turned down due to a rule against hiring people with disabilities.
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2024-08-23 09:37:11

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In 1933, Hall was a European language graduate working as a clerk at the American Embassy in Smyrna, Türkiye. She went on a hunting expedition, tripped on a fence and shot herself in her left foot.
The injury turned gangrenous,: to save her life her leg was amputated below the knee.
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2024-08-23 09:37:05

🧵 #OnThisDay, 23 Aug 1941, American Virginia Hall arrives in France to work for the British Special Operations Executive.
Hall ended up on the German's “most wanted” list as 'the limping lady'.
#WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #AmericanHistory #FlashbackFriday #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-22 08:55:54

#OnThisDay, 22 Aug 1943, Yvonne Cormeau parachutes into France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
She worked for 13 months and was never captured. You can hear her story on the Imperial War Museum site. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80007171
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-22 08:52:17

#OnThisDay, 22 Aug 1762, Ann Smith Franklin becomes the sole editor of the weekly Rhode Island Mercury: the first woman to be a US newspaper editor.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-21 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 21 Aug 2015, 1st Lieutenant Kristen Griest and Captain Shaye Haver become the first women to graduate from the US Army's Ranger school.
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2024-08-20 07:43:57

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Learn more here: https://www.striking-women.org/module/striking-out/grunwick-dispute

2024-08-20 07:43:01

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Her full speech to her manager, as she walked out, was:
“What you are running here is not a factory, it is a zoo. But in a zoo there are many types of animals. Some are monkeys who dance on your fingertips, others are lions who can bite your head off. We are the lions, Mr Manager.”
Women at Grunwick were earning £28 for a 40 hour week when the national average for wages at that time was £72 and a full time woman manual worker in London got £44.
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2024-08-20 07:42:52

“We are the lions.”
#OnThisDay, 20 Aug 1976, Jayaben Desai walked out of her job at the Grunwick photo processing factory in London. It was the start of her leading a two year strike by mostly South Asian women for union recognition. It was the first time a strike by South Asian women was supported by the wider trade union movement in the UK.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory Histodons
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2024-08-19 12:39:50

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oooh, interesting. We’re going to try to formulate a post for tomorrow but have some Real Life Shit that might get in the way.

2024-08-19 11:58:41

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More here: https://www.striking-women.org/module/striking-out/grunwick-dispute

2024-08-19 11:57:08

Via BlueSky. The Grunswick strike in the UK, led by South Asian women, started this week in 1976 and lasted almost two years.
https://bsky.app/profile/20thccommunism.bsky.social/post/3l22ubnoo362z

2024-08-19 11:41:08

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We are not specialists in US feminist history. By definition we're generalist, and never pretend otherwise.
We'd welcome additional posts or suggestions from people who are on how to improve as we always welcome additional insight from experts in an area. We're always happy to see someone use our posts to do a deeper dive into an area they know a lot about.
Your choices on social media are your own.

2024-08-19 11:32:01

“I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
#OnThisDay, 19 Aug 1588*, Queen Elizabeth I of England addresses the troops at Tilbury as they prepare to defend England against the Spanish Armada.
Her reported speech is best seen as propaganda establishing her as a symbolic Britannia. https://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-spanish-armada-8-elizabeths-tilbury-speech/4065/
*date converted from OS calendar
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #TudorHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-19 08:08:24

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yep, we’re aware not all women got it (hence not using “all” in the post).

2024-08-18 10:38:11

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Thanks to a follower on BlueSky for pointing out the deadlock on ratifying the amendment in Tennessee was broken by a young Republican representative who changed his vote after a firm letter from his mother.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/19th-amendment-ratified-tennessee-thanks-to-one-vote

2024-08-18 09:00:04

#OnThisDay, 18 Aug 1920, women in the US gain the right to vote when the 19th amendment is ratified by Tennessee, the 36th state to ratify it.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-18 05:00:02

#OnThisDay, 18 Aug 1892, cycling enthusiasts agree to form a cycling club for women in New Zealand.
The Atalanta Cycling Club sought to reduce prejudice against women cyclists.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Cycling #Histodons
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2024-08-17 08:00:11

#OnThisDay, 17 Aug 2012, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot are sentenced to two years in a prison colony for an anti-Putin protest.
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2024-08-16 18:11:02

"To pass on a strong message to the continent's leaders, war mongers, armies, guerrillas, arms traders and dealers in the African continent that women want peace and stability for their children and future generations and call upon ring leaders and perpetrators of these wars to end them forthwith."
#OnThisDay, 16 Aug 2002, the Women's Peace Train left Kampala on a 10 day journey to Johannesburg.
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2024-08-15 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 15 Aug 1970, Pat Palinkas became the first woman to play American football professionally.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory
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2024-08-14 21:02:43

Very early #OnThisDay, 14 Aug 1943, Eliane Plewman parachutes into Nazi-occupied France to become a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier would move messages and equipment between people.
Captured after 7 months, she was executed in Dachau in Sept 1944.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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2024-08-14 20:57:15

#OnThisDay, 14 Aug 1922, Lizzie 'Spike' Murphy became the first woman to play major league baseball in the US.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory
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2024-08-13 08:00:02

#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.
She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.
#WomenInSTEM
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2024-08-13 07:30:02

#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the US Marines. She went on to be promoted to sergeant, and was the highest ranking woman in the Marines in WW1.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-12 19:53:31

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oh, you’re just an arsehole. Bye!

2024-08-12 16:56:48

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Wow. A second reply guy recycling the same Mel Brooks gag.

2024-08-12 10:45:41

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Not really clear what point you're making. Could you clarify?

2024-08-12 08:00:02

#OnThisDay, 12 Aug 1990, American Sue Hendrickson finds the remains of a T Rex, the largest specimen found to date, in South Dakota.
The fossil remains are now known as Sue and are on display in Chicago.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
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2024-08-11 21:54:43

Yay! We've reached 4K followers here. You all are the best, you know that, right? 🎉
Those Blueskiers have a lot of catching up to do.

2024-08-11 19:13:35

#OnThisDay, 11 Aug 1942 Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil receive a patent for their radio guidance system – the tech that now underpins wifi.
Learn more about Hedy's remarkable life here: https://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/2015/1/14/star-wars-episode-iii-hedy-lamarr-ymrt-29
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #HollywoodHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-10 10:00:02

#OnThisDay, 10 Aug 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is sworn in as an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-10 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 10 Aug 2013, British rider Lara Prior-Palmer wins the modern Mongol Derby four years after it is first run. She's the first woman to win the race.
The 1,000 km course recreates Genghis Khan’s postal system of 25 horse stations across the Mongolian steppe.
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2024-08-09 17:54:34

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we normally do annual checks on people who are still around to make sure they are not actively harming people, but skipped it this week due to Real Life Shit.
It looks like the checks would have turned that up. So we’ll delete the tweet and flag the file for checking again next year in the hope that she changes her views.

2024-08-09 17:45:08

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I did not know that, as we quit Twitter in 2022.

2024-08-09 14:33:42

#OnThisDay, 9 Aug 1956, more than 20,000 women of all races march through Pretoria, South Africa, to petition against the law forcing women to carry passes in order to move about.
Since 1994, a public holiday on 9 Aug marks National Women's Day in South Africa.
Read more about the women who led the movement here: https://issuu.com/topcomedia/docs/public_sector_leaders_august_2021/s/13071366
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AfricanHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-08 14:45:46

#OnThisDay, 8 Aug 1995, Farida Sultana and 7 other women agree to establish a culturally specialist support service for Asian, Middle Eastern and African women in violent and abusive situations in New Zealand. The Shakti organisation started providing services a few weeks later.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistory
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2024-08-07 09:00:02

#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1948, American high jumper Alice Coachman wins Olympic gold, the first Black woman to win gold.
Later in life, she established the Alice Coachman Track and Field Foundation to help support younger athletes and provide assistance to retired Olympic veterans.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons
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2024-08-07 08:30:02

#OnThisDay, 7 Aug1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen wins her fourth gold Olympic medal at a single games: the first woman to do so.
Fanny had been regarded by critics as 'too old' at 30, and nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife”.
Watch footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons
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2024-08-07 08:00:02

#OnThisDay, 7 Aug 1909, Alice Huyler Ramsey and companions arrive in San Francisco, becoming the first women to cross America by car.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory Histodons
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2024-08-06 11:36:07

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Thanks! I've added it to the file for next year.

2024-08-06 11:23:01

#OnThisDay, 6 Aug 1926, American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel.
She was an Olympic swimmer, and had held five world records in swimming.
Watch a silent newsreel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpJDNRQzook
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-04 08:00:07

#OnThisDay, 4 Aug 1948, the women’s shot put and long jump events were held for the first time at the Olympics in London. Micheline Ostermeyer won gold in the shot put and Olga Gyarmati won gold in the long jump.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #OlympicWomen
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2024-08-03 20:52:18

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as we often feature women who have joined the services, such as the women who worked as secret agents, I’m not really sure why you are following us?
Feel free to unfollow. Because you’ve not been engaging with any of our posts apart from this, and we don’t play with sea lions.

2024-08-03 14:33:36

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it proves women can serve in the military. If you don’t like that idea, I suggest you get in the sea.

2024-08-03 08:00:16

#OnThisDay, 3 Aug 1798, British woman Nancy Ann Perriam serves in the naval Battle of the Nile against the French aboard HMS Orion. She prepared the cartridges for the guns, normally a job for young boys known as powder monkeys.
A pub in her hometown is named the Powder Monkey after her.
More info: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-108438
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-02 08:30:02

#OnThisDay, 2 Aug 1947, Dorothy Shay (the "Park Avenue Hillbilly") becomes the first woman to reach no 1 on the Billboard album charts with Dorothy Shay Sings.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory
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2024-08-02 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 2 Aug 1855, Elizabeth Ann Holman goes on trial in Plymouth, UK, for being a suspicious person because she was discovered to be a woman disguised as a man. The case is dismissed. As is a second charge against her for wearing trousers in 1858.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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2024-08-01 22:07:03

#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1980, Vigdis Finnbogadóttir is the first woman to be sworn in as the President of Iceland.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics
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2024-08-01 22:03:07

#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman licensed as a pilot in the US. She goes on to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel the following year.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons
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2024-08-01 20:08:50

#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1786, Caroline Herschel discovers comet C/1786 P1, becoming the first woman to find one (and have it named after her).
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
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2024-07-31 08:00:03

#OnThisDay, 31 July 2016, Yuriko Koike is elected the first female governor of Tokyo, Japan. She is re-elected in 2020.
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