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#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.

When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.

Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.

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

#history #histodons #canadianhistory #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth

#OnThisDay, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled.

https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory#Histodons

Gaura Devi and other women fighting deforestation - Carve Her Name

In March 1974, women fighting deforestation took action to protect the trees above their village. We learn more about them and others.
Mags (Carve Her Name)
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", is arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.

She is later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons
black and white studio photo of Hannie Schaft. She is a white woman with fair hair.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #WW2 #onthisday #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth #dutchhistory

The steps toward the emancipation of women are first intellectual, then industrial, lastly legal and political. Great strides in the first two of these stages already have been made by millions of women who do not yet perceive that it is surely carrying them towards the last.

Ellen Battelle Dietrick

#Quotes #WomensHistory
#quotes #womenshistory

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
studio photo of Lorraine Hansberry. She is a Black woman with short hair.

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#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth #AmericanHistory #literarywomen

#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.

She was a workers-rights activist and key builder of the New Deal. She was in FDR's cabinet for all four terms of his Presidency.

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

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Photo of Frances Perkins being sworn in, with a strong beam of light highlighting her. The rest of the people in the room are men
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #AmericanHistory #Womeninpolitics

#OnThisDay, 1 Mar 1912, Isabella Godwin is promoted, becoming the first woman police detective in the US after an undercover operation to catch a gang of bank robbers.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
Newspaper clipping with a photo of Isabella Goodwin and a headline about her appointment. She is a white woman in a huge hat.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth #AmericanHistory #whm

#OnThisDay, 1 Mar 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler becomes the first woman of colour to become a doctor of medicine in the USA. No confirmed photo of her exists, so here's her book instead.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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A scan of the first page of A Book of Medical Discourses (1883) by Rebecca Lee Crumpler, M.D.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth #AmericanHistory #whm

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory

#OnThisDay, 20 Feb 1935, Danish-Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen sets foot on Antarctica. She was the first woman documented to have landed on the continent when she stepped onto the Tryne Islands. Mount Caroline Mikkelsen is named after her.

Ingrid Christensen stepped foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Caroline Mikkelsen raising the Norwegian flag in Antarctica in 1935.
Caroline Mikkelsen in her cold weather gear, holding a model sled. She is a white woman.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory

#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1963, American writer Betty Friedan's book 'The Feminine Mystique' is published in the USA.

It is widely credited as kick-starting second wave feminism, and identified social expectations of femininity as a driver of women's unhappiness.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FeministHistory #Histodons
cover of the first edition of the Feminine Mystique
black and white photo of Betty Friedan. She is a white woman with light hair.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #feministhistory

#OnThisDay, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

The Irish-born Herbert had been operating as a courier - moving messages and equipment around - for over a year. She'd also had a baby whilst in France.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #Histodons
snapshot photo of Mary Herbert. She is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a neckerchief and smiling.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #WW2 #onthisday #womeninhistory

#OnThisDay, 16 Feb 1982, Agatha Barbara, became the first female President of the Republic of Malta. She'd previously been the first woman to be elected as an MP in 1947.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #MalteseHistory #Histodons
Agatha Barbara in the Presidential office. She is a Mediterranean woman with grey hair.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #maltesehistory

#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London whilst around 60 others are arrested outside.

The picture shows their release the next day.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
newspaper clipping headed "three more suffragettes released from Holloway gaol yesterday" above photos of five women (the three released and two of the women greeting them)
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #BritishHistory #votesforwomen

#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1881, Herbertine Auclert publishes the first edition of La Citoyenne in Paris, France. The feminist newspaper runs for ten years.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #WomenPublishers #Histodons
Herbertine Auclert sitting at her editor's desk. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #Frenchhistory #womenpublishers

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
photo of the academic staff of Utrecht university in a room where the walls are all paintings of men. Johanna Westerdijk is sat in the middle of the front row. Everyone is white.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #womeninstem #onthisday #womeninhistory

Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.

To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English:

https://mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/stories-about-women-from-the-medieval-silk-road-and-available-in-english/

On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?

#intro #history #historicalFiction #silkroad #womenshistory #books #introduction

Stories About Women from the Medieval Silk Road and Available in English

The Silk Road had men and women of all walks of life. It also was one of history’s most literate eras and places, prior to the modern age. One of the reasons that we know that is from the sto…
Women Along the Silk Road
#historicalfiction #introduction #silkroad #history #books #womenshistory #intro

#OnThisDay, 4 Feb 1981, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the first of her three terms. She is the first woman to hold the role.

She was also Director General of the World Health Organisation between 1998 and 2003.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #Histodons
Dr Gro Harlem in her office in 1981. She is a white woman, and is gesturing at a wall of photos and paintings of previous Prime Ministers (all white, all male).
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #Womeninpolitics

#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory
Anna de Waal shaking hands with someone. She is a white woman in a dark suit and hat.
#history #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #dutchhistory

#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 1945, women in Italy gained the right to vote in general as well as local elections.

Women voted in Italian general elections for the first time in 1946.

There's a marvellous photo over on getty showing an 82 year old woman being helped to vote for the first time in 1946.

https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/maria-castaldo-82-year-old-near-blind-mother-of-nine-news-photo/515426182

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #ItalianHistory #Histodons

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#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #votesforwomen #italianhistory

#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
Liliʻuokalani in London in 1888 where she was an official envoy of the Hawaiian king at Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. She is a Hawaiian woman with dark hair, wearing a fashionably ornate day dress.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #regnantwomen

It is a truth universally acknowledged that #OnThisDay, 28 Jan 1813, a new novel 'by the author of Sense & Sensibility' was published.

'Pride & Prejudice' by Jane Austen has sold over 20 million copies, and had many imitators. During her lifetime, it never carried her name as the author.

Bonus photo of Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie Bennett, giving us side-eye.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LiteraryWomen #Histodons
Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennett in the BBC adaptation. She's reading a book and looking amused.
The title page of the first edition of Pride and Prejudice.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #literarywomen

#OnThisDay, 27 Jan 1920, Mary Selina Share Jones becomes the first woman to join Gray's Inn in London as a student. No photo of her is online.

Membership of an Inn is a requirement for barristers in England and Wales. Until Dec 1919, women were barred from joining.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #BritishHistory

I just found out about Katarina Taikon and I am appalled I can't find any of her writing in English or Hungarian. She sounds like the kind of author who should be widely read.

#books #bookstodon #AmReading #Romani #WomensHistory #CivilRights
#books #bookstodon #amreading #womenshistory #civilrights #romani

#OnThisDay, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement.

In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Black and white photo of Dilma Rousseff at her military court hearing. The judges in the background are hiding their faces with their hands.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory

#OnThisDay, 16 Jan 1920, Marjorie Powell becomes the first woman to join Lincoln's Inn in London as a student. Membership of an Inn is a requirement for barristers in England and Wales. Until Dec 1919, women were barred from joining.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
Photo of Marjorie Powell. She is a white woman reading a book.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #BritishHistory

#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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Newspaper headline reading “Suffragist pickets to patrol white lot”. The subhead reads “Women to flaunt “votes for women” banners before president”.
#history #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #AmericanHistory #votesforwomen

#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
Photo of Mo Mowlam, a white woman with pale hair, in the late 1990s.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory

#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
From left, Hattie Henenberg, Hortense Ward and Ruth Brazzil constituted the court in 1925. The three white women are seated behind the judicial bench, with paintings of white men looking down at them
#histodons #womenshistory #onthisday #womeninhistory #AmericanHistory

#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
photo of Marguerite Perey in her long lab coat. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #womeninstem #onthisday #womeninhistory #sciencehistory

#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
Marian Anderson in costume as Ulrika in Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera". She is a black woman, with loose dark hair.

Eight famous women singers - Carve Her Name

We take a quick look at eight of the most famous female singers in opera history. These iconic women were as big as Bey in their day.
MP&MH (Carve Her Name)
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #AmericanHistory #womeninmusic

The Venn diagram of "women who wrote travel journals about visting Rome" and "known lesbians in historical eras" has a quite significant overlap.

I don't know what it means, but there it is 😄

#travel #history #WomensHistory #LGBTQ #QueerHistory #Rome
#lgbtq #travel #history #womenshistory #Rome #queerhistory

So now that I have a database of 60+ women who have written about visiting Rome between the 15th century and the 1960s... should this be a book? I would love to make this a book.

#Rome #travel #WomensHistory #Italy #books #bookstodon #writing #history
#travel #writing #history #Italy #books #bookstodon #womenshistory #Rome

#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
Whetu Tirikātene-Sullivan with three male cabinet ministers. She is a Māori woman wearing a bold-patterned dress. The men are all in suits.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #nzhistory

"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: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Toni Morrison in profile. She is a Black woman with greying locs
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #readmorewomen #nobelwomen

“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”

#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland.

"In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory #Histodons
Mary Robinson signing the papers that made her President, with 17 men looking on. Everyone is white.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #irishhistory

#OnThisDay, 12 Nov 1951, Celia Franca's National Ballet of Canada holds its first performance. Franca had gathered the company from across Canada in just 10 months. She goes on to co-found the National Ballet School.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #BalletHistory
Black and white studio photo of Celia Franca in the 1950s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#history #canadianhistory #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #ballethistory

#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes."

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

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in a dress in around 1863, wearing the medal. She is a white woman with dark hair tied back.
Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is a white woman with white hair wearing trousers, a frock coat and a topper. She still has the medal on the breast of her coat.
#history #histodons #womenshistory #OTD #onthisday #womeninhistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory

#WomensEpics that need an English translation ASAP, round two:

- Catakantaravanan: a Tamil epic that elaborates on the Ramayana, but in this story, it is Sita who fights a demon king

- Matabagka Seeks the Deity of the Wind: epic from the Philippines about a girl's heroic journey (this one has an English translation, but only in a thesis manuscript in the UP library)

#WomensEpics #epics #folklore #women #WomensHistory
#folklore #Women #womenshistory #epics #womensepics

Once again, on my social media feed:

"Elizabeth Báthory is one of the most prolific serial killers in history!"

No 👏 She 👏 Is 👏 Not 👏

It was a political trial. She was a widow with vast lands and lots of money. There is an entire book written by a legal historian about her trial and how it was constructed to grab her wealth.

She was definitely not a vampire, but she was also not a celebrity murderess.

#women #WomensHistory #history
#history #Women #womenshistory

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