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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the ...

2026-05-18T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the ...

2026-05-18T01:00:01Z

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, and called for Māori women to have the vote and to be members of the parliament.

#AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

17 May is Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day). ...

2026-05-17T10:29:04Z

17 May is Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day).

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1863, María Rosalía Rita de Castro's poetry is published. It’s the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. The public holiday was introduced to celebrate the centenary of Rosalia de Castro's work.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Galicia #LiteraryWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1841, Sarah Losh and her fellow trustees lay ...

2026-05-17T10:25:44Z

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1841, Sarah Losh and her fellow trustees lay the foundation stone of Wreay Church. Sarah designed, funded and had the earliest Romanesque revival church in England built.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Architecture #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman ...

2026-05-11T12:30:34Z

#OnThisDay, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Apologies for the pause in posting over the UK bank holiday: ...

2026-05-05T14:31:32Z

Apologies for the pause in posting over the UK bank holiday: testing a new process for scheduling and got distracted by the World snooker championships.

#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical ...

2026-05-05T14:26:10Z

#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research identifying cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons

"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own." ...

2026-04-10T11:32:16Z

"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the ...

2026-04-02T13:15:21Z

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race ...

2026-03-15T09:00:08Z

#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.

In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.

Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI

More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #BoatRace #ThisGirlCan #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 14 Mar 2018, Angela Merkel is sworn in as Chancellor ...

2026-03-14T09:00:08Z

#OnThisDay, 14 Mar 2018, Angela Merkel is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany for the fourth time. #WomenInPolitics

📚 Support #ReadItForward in February! Buy children's books ...

2026-02-02T09:59:38Z

📚 Support #ReadItForward in February! Buy children's books through our @bookshop_org_uk link AND 10% will go to @BookTrust and @scottishbktrust.

We've curated a list of books about women in history for younger readers (and the odd fiction title). Explore it at: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/read-it-forward-books-for-younger-readers

Mags did. It's in the data file correctly but she made a ...

2026-01-31T17:10:18Z

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Mags did. It's in the data file correctly but she made a copy/paste error due to doing it whilst ill.

#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 2013, women in Paris are officially allowed to ...

2026-01-31T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 2013, women in Paris are officially allowed to wear trousers.

The 1799 law required women to ask police for permission to "dress as men", or risk being taken into custody. Amendments in 1892 and 1909 were made to allow women to wear trousers if they were holding horse reins or a bicycle handle.

The law was widely ignored.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, lifted the ban as “incompatible with the principles of equality between women and men”.
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#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of ...

2026-01-29T09:00:47Z

#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 2017, millions of people around the world take ...

2026-01-21T11:00:35Z

#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 2017, millions of people around the world take part in the Women's March to protest the first election of Trump as US President. There was at least one march on every continent, including Antarctica.

#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit ...

2026-01-21T10:39:59Z

#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney.

She was denied, and left saying she "Protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1908, Ethel Hedgemon Lyle and others form the ...

2026-01-15T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1908, Ethel Hedgemon Lyle and others form the Alpha Kappa Alpha sonority house at Howard university – the first US university house for Black women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen ...

2026-01-15T09:00:28Z

#OnThisDay, 15 Jan 1559, Elizabeth Tudor is crowned as Queen Elizabeth of England. She reigned alone until her death in 1603.

Her foreign policy included privateering, colonising Virginia and approving the start of the East India Company.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Histodons

“I honestly believe that almost all of what I've done, ...

2026-01-14T10:00:30Z

“I honestly believe that almost all of what I've done, there's no reason why other women couldn't or wouldn't or shouldn't do it so, if others are inspired to go and climb some mountains, that would be wonderful.”

#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 2018, Katie Sarah becomes the first woman to complete the Seven-Seven, climbing the highest mountains and volcanoes on each continent.

#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1972, Margrethe II becomes queen of Denmark, ...

2026-01-14T09:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1972, Margrethe II becomes queen of Denmark, ruling in her own right until she announced her abdication (also on this day) in 2024.

She was the first regnant queen of Denmark since Margrethe 1 in 1375–1412.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny5TCQgTwXQ

#RegnantQueens #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

If you're in the UK, you can pick up a copy through our ...

2026-01-14T09:00:10Z

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If you're in the UK, you can pick up a copy through our bookshop dot org shop:
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9788119750269

(affiliate link)
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#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The ...

2026-01-14T09:00:05Z

#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The Bell Jar' is published in the UK under the name Victoria Lucas. It’s republished in her own name in 1967.

Bonus article on some of the, er, curious cover choices. You can probably date yourself by which cover you recognise.
https://lithub.com/15-covers-for-the-bell-jar-ranked-from-most-to-least-sexist/

#LiteraryWomen #ReadMoreWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton at the ...

2026-01-13T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1976, Sarah Caldwell takes up the baton at the New York Met Opera, becoming the first woman to conduct an opera there.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1972, Bernice Gera wins her discrimination ...

2026-01-13T09:00:06Z

#OnThisDay, 13 Jan 1972, Bernice Gera wins her discrimination case against the National Association of Baseball Leagues for refusing her contract on the ground women could not be baseball umpires.

She resigns after her first game as an umpire, citing the level of harassment she received on and off the field.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

"The time has passed when a woman should be placed in a ...

2026-01-12T09:40:09Z

"The time has passed when a woman should be placed in a position and kept there only while someone else is being groomed for the job."

#OnThisDay, 12 Jan 1932, Hattie Wyatt Caraway wins a special US Senate election to become the first woman elected to the Senate. She won 92% of the vote.

She was a Southern Democrat. Though she was progressive on women’s rights, she voted against anti-lynching laws that could have protected Black people.

#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History

#OnThisDay, 12 Jan 2018, women in Saudi Arabia attend a football ...

2026-01-12T09:38:31Z

#OnThisDay, 12 Jan 2018, women in Saudi Arabia attend a football match for the first time, at a stadium in Jeddah. They remain segregated, and are required to use separate 'family' gates to enter the 'family' seating.

#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person ...

2026-01-11T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1935, Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to California.

Earhart was an aviation pioneer, and set many records before her plane was lost in the Pacific in 1937.

#WomenPilots #HistoryOfFlight #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1055, Theodora Porphyrogenita is proclaimed ...

2026-01-11T09:00:00Z

#OnThisDay, 11 Jan 1055, Theodora Porphyrogenita is proclaimed sole 'emperor' of the Byzantine Empire after the death of her sister Zoë. The sisters had previously ruled the empire - the most powerful economic, cultural, and military force in Europe - together.

#RegnantWomen #History #ByzantianHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Many of the sentinels were arrested over the two years, and some ...

2026-01-10T09:00:08Z

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Many of the sentinels were arrested over the two years, and some were physically abused whilst in prison.
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Many of the sentinels were arrested over the two years, and some ...

2026-01-10T09:00:07Z

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Many of the sentinels were arrested over the two years, and some were physically abused whilst in prison.
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#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their ...

2026-01-10T09:00:01Z

#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picketing of the US White House, demanding votes for women.

They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.

In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen

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#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their ...

2026-01-10T09:00:01Z

#OnThisDay, 9 Jan 1998, Dr Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for ...

2026-01-09T09:00:34Z

#OnThisDay, 9 Jan 1998, Dr Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, held talks with loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison in an effort to continue the peace talks that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement.

Archive news: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0108/931726-mo-mowlam-visits-maze

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1925, the first all-woman supreme court in the ...

2026-01-08T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1925, the first all-woman supreme court in the USA meets for the first time in Texas.

Hortense Sparks Ward, Hattie Leah Henenberg and Ruth Virginia Brazzil are appointed to hear a case involving the “Woodmen of the World” fraternal association.

The fraternity counted most judges and attorneys in the state as members. This meant the men had to recuse themselves: appointing women avoided conflict of interest.

#AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1816, mathematician Sophie Germain wins the ...

2026-01-08T09:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1816, mathematician Sophie Germain wins the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity theory.

#WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1955, Marian Anderson becomes the first Black ...

2026-01-07T09:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1955, Marian Anderson becomes the first Black soloist to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

In the 1930s, she'd sung at the Lincoln Memorial in DC after being barred from performing at Constitution Hall due to her race.

Listen to her sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_5ZEtM_fQ

Learn more about her: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/

#WomenInMusic #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey ...

2026-01-07T09:00:12Z

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 6 Jan 1971, the Militant Mothers of Raymur, 25 women ...

2026-01-06T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 6 Jan 1971, the Militant Mothers of Raymur, 25 women from the Raymur Place housing project in Vancouver, blockaded railway tracks to get a pedestrian overpass installed. 400 children from the housing project had to cross the tracks - while trains were running - to get to and from school.

The bridge was built and is now named after the women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons

hat tip @workingclasshistory@threads.net

#OnThisDay, 6 Jan 1907, Maria Montessori opens her first Casa Dei ...

2026-01-06T09:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 6 Jan 1907, Maria Montessori opens her first Casa Dei Bambini in Rome. Her aim was to improve the lives of the 50 working class children in her care.

Hundreds of schools worldwide now follow elements of the educational theory she developed through working with them.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 2012, Portia Simpson Miller is sworn in as ...

2026-01-05T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 2012, Portia Simpson Miller is sworn in as Prime Minister of Jamaica, having been re-elected in the December elections.

#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as ...

2026-01-05T09:00:43Z

#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as Wyoming's governor. She is the first woman in the USA to govern a State. She went on to be the first woman to run the US Mint.

#WomenInPolitics #AmericanHistory
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1972, Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman ...

2026-01-04T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1972, Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge to preside at the Old Bailey (the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales). It had taken 53 years after women were able to be lawyers in the UK.

#Histodons
#BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Very early #OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1944, Anne-Marie Walters parachutes ...

2026-01-04T09:00:01Z

Very early #OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1944, Anne-Marie Walters parachutes into occupied France to become a British Special Operations Executive agent. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

In August 1944 she escapes over the Pyrenees, and later writes a book about her exploits.

#WorldWar2 #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1985, Leontyne Price gives her final operatic ...

2026-01-03T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1985, Leontyne Price gives her final operatic stage performance, as Aida at the New York Met.

Price was the first African American to be given a leading role at La Scala, and has 19 Grammy awards.

Read more about famous opera singers like Price: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/

Watch a song from her farewell performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74HvM1lDUdw

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenOnStage #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1933, Minnie Craig is elected speaker for North ...

2026-01-03T09:00:15Z

#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1933, Minnie Craig is elected speaker for North Dakota's House of Representatives.

She is the first woman to be speaker in a State legislature in the USA.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Desilu was a TV studio: that's something I can tweak for next ...

2026-01-02T13:05:03Z

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Desilu was a TV studio: that's something I can tweak for next year. ;)

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1991, Sharon Pratt Kelly (nee Dixon) takes up ...

2026-01-02T10:00:04Z

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1991, Sharon Pratt Kelly (nee Dixon) takes up post as the Mayor of Washington DC. She is the first black woman to lead a major US city.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory#AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1980, Sherry Lansing is appointed as president ...

2026-01-02T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1980, Sherry Lansing is appointed as president of production at 20th Century Fox: she is the first woman to lead a Hollywood studio.

Mary Pickford had co-owned United Artists, but not run it.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#HollywoodHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1969, Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous ...

2026-01-02T09:00:01Z

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1969, Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous autobiographical play 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' opens off-Broadway in New York City.

Its run inspires her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.

Listen to Simone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Writing novels was considered unseemly for a woman. Jane Austen ...

2026-01-01T15:13:26Z

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Writing novels was considered unseemly for a woman. Jane Austen was also published anonymously during her lifetime, and the Bronte's used male pseudonyms.

“My promise is ... to honor women, to protect the most fragile, ...

2026-01-01T10:00:02Z

“My promise is ... to honor women, to protect the most fragile, and to govern for all.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 2011, Dilma Rousseff becomes the first woman elected President of Brazil.

In the 1970s she'd been a guerrilla and was captured, tortured and jailed by the then dictatorship.

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1983, 44 women climb the fence of Greenham ...

2026-01-01T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1983, 44 women climb the fence of Greenham Common airbase and dance on the missile silos.

The women-led Peace Camps at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, protesting the siting of US nuclear missiles on UK soil. https://greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/

Photo by Raissa Page.

#PeaceActivism #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

It's ALIVE! #OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's ...

2026-01-01T09:00:39Z

It's ALIVE!

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.

https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9780143131847 (affiliate link)

#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 2010, Elizabeth Murchison and team publish ...

2026-01-01T02:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 2010, Elizabeth Murchison and team publish research identifying the source of fatal contagious cancer that is threatening wild Tasmanian devils with extinction.

Watch her TED talk here:
https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_murchison

#WomenInSTEM

#OnThisDay, 31 Dec 2011, Prof. Maria Zuber’s GRAIL A spacecraft ...

2025-12-31T09:00:13Z

#OnThisDay, 31 Dec 2011, Prof. Maria Zuber’s GRAIL A spacecraft successfully entered orbit around the Moon. GRAIL B arrived two days later.

Better known as Ebb and Flow, they flew in tandem around the moon to precisely measure and map variations in the moon's gravitational field.

#WomenInSTEM

as outlined in the thread.

2025-12-30T09:10:44Z

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as outlined in the thread.

#OnThisDay, 30 Dec 2020, the Argentine Senate voted in favour of ...

2025-12-30T09:00:07Z

#OnThisDay, 30 Dec 2020, the Argentine Senate voted in favour of making abortion legal up to 14 weeks. After the 14th week, abortion would still be legal in cases of rape or if the woman's life or health is in danger.

It became law in January 2021.

We've been on a break! Hello to our new followers, and thank ...

2025-12-29T15:35:00Z

We've been on a break! Hello to our new followers, and thank you to our existing ones.

In 2024, workers at five of the UK's largest supermarkets, ...

2025-12-29T15:15:26Z

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In 2024, workers at five of the UK's largest supermarkets, Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and the Co-op, were pursuing equal pay cases.

In 2025, around £1 billion was awarded to women taking equal pay claims through the GMB union alone.
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#OnThisDay, 29 Dec 1975, the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay ...

2025-12-29T15:15:21Z

#OnThisDay, 29 Dec 1975, the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts came into effect in the UK. These made it unlawful to discriminate based on sex or marital status, and made it a requirement to pay men and women equally for equal work.

The laws were passed in 1970 but did not come into effect until 1975, giving employers time to prepare. One of the triggers for the laws had been the 1968 Ford machinists strike.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori ...

2025-12-20T02:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori seats in Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo is from 1908.

Until 1975, electors of Māori descent could only vote in one of the four Māori seats unless they had one Māori and one European parent.

More about the Māori seats here: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/setting-maori-seats

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 18 Dec 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko narrowly won the ...

2025-12-18T09:00:16Z

#OnThisDay, 18 Dec 2007, Yulia Tymoshenko narrowly won the Ukrainian Parliament's backing to return as Prime Minister.

She had co-led Ukraine’s 'Orange Revolution' in 2004-05, and held strong pro-EU views. In 2009, as Ukraine’s PM, she had to negotiate with Putin after Russia switched off the gas supply to the country. Tymoshenko was then imprisoned between 2011 and 2014, during Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency, in what was seen as a politically motivated case.

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2025-12-17T16:52:31Z

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In the UK? Still trying to find the perfect gift? Why not books? ...

2025-12-17T16:52:26Z

In the UK? Still trying to find the perfect gift? Why not books?

Our 2025 gift guide at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social may have what you want*. There's a couple of days left to get a book to you in time for Christmas. Check the website for details.

https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/gift-guide-2025-books-by-women-and-non-binary-writers
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She was sent back to Lanzarote without her passport, where she ...

2025-12-17T11:47:30Z

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She was sent back to Lanzarote without her passport, where she went on hunger strike for 32 days and was eventually admitted to hospital.

On her return to her home, she was placed under house arrest.

Between 1987 and 1991, she had been held without trial by the authorities after attending a non-violent demonstration for independence. She was also imprisoned between 2005 and 2006.

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#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 2009, Sahrawi activist Aminatou Ali Ahmed ...

2025-12-17T11:47:24Z

#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 2009, Sahrawi activist Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar ended her hunger strike and returned to the Western Sahara.

Haider campaigns for Morocco to stop administering the Western Sahara.

In 2009 she had left the Western Sahara to collect a prize. Morocco then barred her from re-entering the Western Sahara after she refused to say her nationality was Moroccan.
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#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 1905, over 22,000 people join demonstrations ...

2025-12-17T11:45:20Z

#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 1905, over 22,000 people join demonstrations across Finland to demand #VotesForWomen.

The vote was won in 1906.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FinnishHistory #Histodons

Norton had left her husband because of his coercive behaviour. He ...

2025-12-15T11:13:36Z

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Norton had left her husband because of his coercive behaviour. He denied her access to their three children. Even once the bill passed, divorced mothers had to petition the courts to have access to their children at all.

Norton also pushed for more rights for married women, including the 1870 act that recognised married women had their own, separate, legal identity from their husband.
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#OnThisDay, 15 Dec 1838, Caroline Norton uses a pen name to ...

2025-12-15T11:13:31Z

#OnThisDay, 15 Dec 1838, Caroline Norton uses a pen name to publish a pamphlet campaigning for the Infant Custody Bill.

Until the bill was passed, in 1839, divorced women had no custody rights over their children as they were seen as the father's property.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1985, Wilma Mankiller was sworn in as Chief of ...

2025-12-14T10:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1985, Wilma Mankiller was sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She went to serve two more terms as Chief.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Markievicz was a member of Sinn Féin, an Irish republican and a ...

2025-12-14T09:30:26Z

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Markievicz was a member of Sinn Féin, an Irish republican and a suffragist. At the time of the election she was in Holloway prison for her political activism.

The Sinn Féin MPs refused to take up their seats at Westminster and instead formed the first Dáil Éireann in Dublin. Markievicz became the Minister for Labour from 1919 to 1922.

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The results of the UK GE1918 weren't announced until 28 Dec ...

2025-12-14T09:30:20Z

The results of the UK GE1918 weren't announced until 28 Dec but #OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman elected to the UK parliament.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #IrishHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, some women across the UK vote legally in ...

2025-12-14T09:00:01Z

#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, some women across the UK vote legally in parliamentary elections for the first time. It's the culmination of decades of campaigning.

Only women over 30 who held some property rights were allowed to vote, whereas all men over 21 could vote.

It was another decade until women had equal voting rights as men.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 13 Dec 1983, Martha Layne Collins became Governor of ...

2025-12-13T09:00:26Z

#OnThisDay, 13 Dec 1983, Martha Layne Collins became Governor of Kentucky, USA. She was the first woman to hold the role, and no further women have governed the state.

Her husband was later convicted for peddling influence and accepting kickbacks during her time in office.
#AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 12 Dec 2015, women voted for the first time in Saudi ...

2025-12-12T09:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 12 Dec 2015, women voted for the first time in Saudi Arabian elections. Around 17 women were elected to municipal councils.

#OnThisDay, 12 Dec 1888, 20 young women petition the ...

2025-12-12T02:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 12 Dec 1888, 20 young women petition the Governor-General of the Philippines requesting permission to learn Spanish.

At the time Spanish, the language of the colonisers, was the language of politics and society in the region. So the women were really seeking access to power.

They are initially refused, with priests arguing against it, but persist until a school is, briefly, opened. http://www.fma.ph/?p=1639

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #FilipinosHistory #Histodons

We think generational stereotypes are unhelpful and unkind.

2025-12-11T13:25:06Z

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We think generational stereotypes are unhelpful and unkind.

#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in ...

2025-12-11T09:28:07Z

#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.

They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.

The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.

Watch news footage from the time: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/greenham-common-womens-peace-group-protesting-the-arrival-news-footage/98769427

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2018, Donna Strickland – along with Arthur ...

2025-12-10T09:17:20Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2018, Donna Strickland – along with Arthur Ashkin and Gérard Mourou – accepts the Nobel prize for Physics.

Only the third woman to win the physics prize, her wikipedia biography had previously been declined for lack of notability.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2018/strickland/lecture/

#WomenInSTEM

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Svetlana Alexievich accepts the Nobel ...

2025-12-10T09:17:14Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Svetlana Alexievich accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature for depicting life during and after the Soviet Union through the experience of individuals.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2015/alexievich/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Tu Youyou accepts the Nobel Prize in ...

2025-12-10T09:17:08Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2015, Tu Youyou accepts the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against malaria.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/tu/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2014, Malala Yousafzay accepts the Nobel prize ...

2025-12-10T09:17:02Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2014, Malala Yousafzay accepts the Nobel prize for Peace alongside Kailash Satyarthi.

Malala has been campaigning for equal access to education since she was 11, surviving a murder attempt by the Taliban.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Herta Müller accepts the Nobel prize ...

2025-12-10T09:16:56Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Herta Müller accepts the Nobel prize for Literature.

During the Ceauşescu dictatorship in Romania, she was persecuted for refusing to work for the secret police and writing criticism of the state. She emigrated to Germany in 1987.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2009/muller/lecture/

#NobelWomen

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Ada E. Yonath – alongside Venkatraman ...

2025-12-10T09:16:50Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Ada E. Yonath – alongside Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz – accepts the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on ribosomes.

She gave her lecture on 8 December: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2009/yonath/lecture/

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider ...

2025-12-10T09:16:43Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 2009, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak accept the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on chromosomes.

They gave their lectures on 7 December:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2009/summary/

#WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams ...

2025-12-10T09:16:38Z

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#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams accept the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their community activism in Northern Ireland.

Betty gave their lecture the following day:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1976/williams/lecture/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen

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The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, ...

2025-12-10T09:16:31Z

The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.

This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1978, the Milkwaukee Does and the Chicago ...

2025-12-09T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1978, the Milkwaukee Does and the Chicago Hustle play the first Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) game.

The WBL lasted for three years, and was the first professional women's basketball league in the US.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1897, Marguerite Durand founds 'La ...

2025-12-09T09:00:07Z

#OnThisDay, 9 Dec 1897, Marguerite Durand founds 'La Fronde', a French feminist newspaper written entirely by women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #Histodons

We recently gently passed the 6,000 followers mark here on ...

2025-12-08T11:37:04Z

We recently gently passed the 6,000 followers mark here on Mastodon. Now we know this place is not all about the hashtag numbers, but that's almost double what we had on Twitter when we quit it a couple of years ago. 🎉

So thank you for following us, and thank you for the likes and shares.

So you need to pick that up with Toni Morrision, after reading ...

2025-12-08T11:35:01Z

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So you need to pick that up with Toni Morrision, after reading her speech. Given she was talking about violence towards black women.

#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1972, Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan is sworn in as ...

2025-12-08T02:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 8 Dec 1972, Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan is sworn in as Minister of Tourism in Aotearoa / New Zealand. She's the first Māori woman to be a Cabinet minister.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is ...

2025-12-07T09:00:18Z

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here:

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

UK bookshop org is doing a gift card giveaway this weekend, as ...

2025-12-06T11:31:54Z

UK bookshop org is doing a gift card giveaway this weekend, as part of encouraging Small Business Saturday. Buy ANY book between 5 and 7 Dec, and you could win a £250 Bookshop.org digital gift card.

Every sale supports independent bookshops (and maybe us!): https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CarveHerName

Beauvoir wrote ‘The Second Sex’ in 1949, in which she ...

2025-12-06T10:00:18Z

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Beauvoir wrote ‘The Second Sex’ in 1949, in which she detailed the ways in which women were repressed by a patriarchal culture.

It was banned by the Vatican, and inspired Betty Friedan and Judith Butler’s writings.

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“To make something good of the future, you have to look the ...

2025-12-06T10:00:12Z

“To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.”

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1954, Simone de Beauvoir wins the Prix Goncourt with her novel ‘The Mandarins’.

She was the third woman to win the Goncourt since it was founded in 1903. Only 14 of the 114 winners have been women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #FrenchHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1934, the Turkish Parliament voted to allow all ...

2025-12-06T09:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1934, the Turkish Parliament voted to allow all women over 22 the vote, and women over 30 the right to stand in elections.

The first women were elected the following year.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

"Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, ...

2025-12-06T09:00:02Z

"Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, I'm no lady. I'm a human being."

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1921, Agnes Macphail, wins a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. She was the first woman to be a Canadian MP.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons