Nostr notes by CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 22 May 2003, Annika Sörenstam teed off at Fort ...

2026-05-22T08:00:11Z

#OnThisDay, 22 May 2003, Annika Sörenstam teed off at Fort Worth’s Colonial golf club. She became the third woman to play a PGA Tour golf tournament, and the first for over 50 years. One male player withdrew from the contest in protest at her inclusion.

Photo is from 2008 LPGA tour.

“Have ye come far?” “Only from America.” #OnThisDay, 21 ...

2026-05-21T08:00:01Z

“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory [@histodons](https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons ) #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 20 May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as President ...

2026-05-20T01:00:05Z

#OnThisDay, 20 May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as President of Taiwan. She is the first woman to hold the role, and was re-elected in 2020.

In 2019 she had pushed through the legalisation of same-sex marriage, despite 67% of the country rejecting it in a referendum.

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's ...

2026-05-19T08:00:25Z

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”

#OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others.

In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, she was blacklisted by Hollywood.

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName/116592869474676540 ...

2026-05-18T09:35:23Z

RE: https://mstdn.social/@CarveHerName/116592869474676540

Here's the daytime (BST) boost of this one. I do the western Pacific posts at 2am (GMT/BST) to as to just about be on the right date around there.

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#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

#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 1953, pilot Jackie Cochran becomes the first ...

2026-05-18T08:00:08Z

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1953, pilot Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory #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

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first ...

2026-05-17T10:30:51Z

#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory #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

You can learn more about Losh and see the inside of the church ...

2026-05-17T10:25:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…g6nt
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You can learn more about Losh and see the inside of the church here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue7qwwIJzQ0&ab_channel=FineArtRestorationCompany
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#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, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the ...

2026-05-16T01:00:01Z

#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 May 1991, Edith Cresson is appointed Prime ...

2026-05-15T08:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 15 May 1991, Edith Cresson is appointed Prime Minister of France. She is the first woman to hold the post.

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

#OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic ...

2026-05-15T08:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/

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

#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as ...

2026-05-14T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

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

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.” ...

2026-05-14T08:00:18Z

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”

#OnThisDay, 14 May 1925, Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs Dalloway.

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

(Affiliate link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9781784870867)

Inge Lehmann was born on this day. Her theories about the ...

2026-05-13T09:00:02Z

Inge Lehmann was born on this day. Her theories about the earth's core changed the world. We reviewed a biography about her last year but haven't be able to pin down a date for paper.

https://carvehername.org.uk/book-review-if-i-am-right-by-hanne-strager/

#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen ...

2026-05-12T08:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and she worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son.

She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease.

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

#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

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union ...

2026-05-09T08:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body ...

2026-05-09T08:00:08Z

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda ...

2026-05-08T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment.

In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.

We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the ...

2026-05-08T08:00:01Z

#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women as patients.

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

#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops ...

2026-05-07T08:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans.

Read more at https://carvehername.org.uk/joan-of-arc-7-may-1429/

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc #Histodons

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' ...

2026-05-06T08:00:22Z

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance: couriers would move messages and equipment around an area.

Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #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

The British SOE supported the French Resistance in sabotaging ...

2026-05-01T09:49:51Z

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The British SOE supported the French Resistance in sabotaging Nazi occupation. Being a wireless operator was the role at most risk of discovery as the operator's position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes ...

2026-05-01T09:49:46Z

#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

She's never captured.

She died in 2023, in New Zealand.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 30 April 1937, 447,725 women in the Philippines vote ...

2026-04-30T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 30 April 1937, 447,725 women in the Philippines vote to be given the vote in the women's suffrage plebiscite.

Yes, the government did ask women to vote on whether they should have the vote…

https://asiafoundation.org/2012/03/07/early-feminism-in-the-philippines/

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

#OnThisDay, 30 Apr 1920, the French women’s national football ...

2026-04-30T08:00:11Z

#OnThisDay, 30 Apr 1920, the French women’s national football team played the first of four matches against Dick, Kerr Ladies in Preston, England. In front of a crowd of 25,000.

It was the first time a women’s international match had a national team selected after try-outs. The Dick, Kerr Ladies returned the fixtures, playing in France in October 1920.

This could be footage of the match:
https://youtu.be/gwzXon-HYys?si=qe_qdaGz-3IMW6Ig

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Football #Histodons

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake ...

2026-04-30T01:00:01Z

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.

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

"We are the result of many fights, we carry in our blood the ...

2026-04-29T08:30:01Z

"We are the result of many fights, we carry in our blood the inheritance of our grandmothers, our roots make demands of us and our daughters are rebelling."

#OnThisDay, 29 April 2010, Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo is killed whilst taking provisions to besieged indigenous communities in Mexico.

#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time. ...

2026-04-29T08:00:00Z

#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.

Newsreel: https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003075

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the ...

2026-04-28T08:00:06Z

#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire.

The Privy Council picked Anna as she was widowed and childless. They imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her.

She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.

Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.

*Old Style date

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory

#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of ...

2026-04-27T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: https://buff.ly/38djBcP

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

#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize ...

2026-04-27T08:00:03Z

#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.

She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.

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

#OnThisDay, 26 Apr 1777, 16 year old Sybil Ludington is said to ...

2026-04-26T08:00:12Z

#OnThisDay, 26 Apr 1777, 16 year old Sybil Ludington is said to have ridden 40 miles to warn American colonial forces of a British attack.

There's no contemporary evidence – see https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00452

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the ...

2026-04-25T08:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons

"Fear is just a line in your head. You can choose what side ...

2026-04-24T08:00:10Z

"Fear is just a line in your head. You can choose what side of the line you want to be on."

#OnThisDay, 24 April 2015, Sabeen Mehmud, a human rights activist, is killed in a targeted drive-by shooting in Pakistan.

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney ...

2026-04-23T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/

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

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar ...

2026-04-23T08:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/

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

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden ...

2026-04-22T08:00:03Z

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France ...

2026-04-21T08:00:09Z

#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote.

#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie ...

2026-04-20T10:42:28Z

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, ...

2026-04-11T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught.

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

Yep. Clothes have no intrinsic gender. Dr Walker was arrested for ...

2026-04-10T22:16:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…nxv3
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Yep. Clothes have no intrinsic gender.

Dr Walker was arrested for wearing trousers (which is when she said that quote). A woman in Devon a century earlier was tried, twice for wearing trousers. Joan of Arc’s heresy was wearing hose and not skirts.

It’s a load of hooey.

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1974, Pauline McGibbon is sworn in as ...

2026-04-10T12:00:31Z

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1974, Pauline McGibbon is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada. She was the first woman to hold the role.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #CanadianHistory #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, 7 Apr 2012, Joyce Banda is sworn in as President of ...

2026-04-07T08:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 2012, Joyce Banda is sworn in as President of Malawi, the first woman to hold the role.

After losing the 2014 election, Banda was accused of corruption and went into exile. She returned, has never been charged with corruption and ran, unsuccessfully, in the 2025 election.

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of ...

2026-04-07T08:00:13Z

#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.

She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK #Histodons

Yep. We feature Bloch on the day she arrived: our posts focus on ...

2026-04-06T18:49:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…yx5a
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Yep. We feature Bloch on the day she arrived: our posts focus on what women did, not what was done to them. So this one is on the day two of the women arrived.

Yep. We have plenty of women elected as Dems who had deeply ...

2026-04-06T18:47:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…gkrk
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Yep. We have plenty of women elected as Dems who had deeply reactionary ideas about race including eugenicists.

Mags has been reading The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin and is ...

2026-04-06T15:10:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…h74x
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Mags has been reading The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin and is obsessed with it.
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9780356512686

But our shop also has lists like this one, https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2026-books-by-women-and-non-binary-writers, with popular, lauded or both books by women and non-binary writers.
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Last day to treat yourself this Easter to ANY book from our UK ...

2026-04-06T15:10:21Z

Last day to treat yourself this Easter to ANY book from our UK bookshop. Buy by 6 April and you'll be supporting independent bookshops AND have a chance to win a £400 digital gift card: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CarveHerName

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Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette ...

2026-04-06T10:26:05Z

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.

Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.

They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.

#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory

Mags has been reading The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin and is ...

2026-04-03T14:39:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…qk4p
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Mags has been reading The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin and is obsessed with it.
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9780356512686

But our shop also has lists like this one, https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2026-books-by-women-and-non-binary-writers, with popular, lauded or both books by women and non-binary writers.
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Treat yourself this Easter to ANY book from our UK bookshop. Buy ...

2026-04-03T14:39:51Z

Treat yourself this Easter to ANY book from our UK bookshop. Buy between 3 and 6 April and you'll be supporting independent bookshops AND have a chance to win a £400 digital gift card: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/CarveHerName

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#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral ...

2026-04-03T08:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.

Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.

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

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 2016, Trupti Desai leads a group of women in an ...

2026-04-02T13:17:37Z

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 2016, Trupti Desai leads a group of women in an attempt to enter the Shani Shingnapur Temple in Ahmednagar in India. Courts had ruled in favour of allowing women access but women were still being denied. It's part of a wider campaign for women to enter temples.

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1991, Rita Johnson becomes the first female ...

2026-04-02T13:16:13Z

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1991, Rita Johnson becomes the first female premier of a Canadian province when she is elected by the political caucus.

#WomenInHistory #CanadianHistory #History #OTD #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, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' ...

2026-03-31T08:30:01Z

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

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

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular ...

2026-03-31T08:00:04Z

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

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

#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 2019, Zuzana Čaputová was elected as ...

2026-03-30T09:47:09Z

#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 2019, Zuzana Čaputová was elected as President of Slovakia. She was the first - and so far only - woman to hold the role.

She had gained national prominence as a lawyer when she led a 14-year case against an illegal landfill.

#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the ...

2026-03-30T09:43:25Z

#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

#OnThisDay, 27 Mar 1997, Pamela Gordon becomes the first woman to ...

2026-03-27T09:00:02Z

#OnThisDay, 27 Mar 1997, Pamela Gordon becomes the first woman to be Premier of Bermuda, after winning a party leadership election. Her party, the United Bermuda Party, was centre-right.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInPolitics #WomensHistoryMonth #History #Histodons

so diverting an online conversation into one about Turing is the ...

2026-03-26T18:44:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…y6f6
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so diverting an online conversation into one about Turing is the definition of ignoring women’s roles at BP though. It’s not deepening the conversation but derailing it.

#OnThisDay, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent ...

2026-03-26T09:00:08Z

#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

Well, yes. I just rewatched Breaking the Code, the 1990s BBC film ...

2026-03-25T22:29:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…9cj4
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Well, yes. I just rewatched Breaking the Code, the 1990s BBC film about him which is on iPlayer.

However, we run a women’s history account so our focus is on the hundreds of women who worked at BP.

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2026-03-25T15:38:40Z

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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park ...

2026-03-25T09:31:53Z

#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.

At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons

Plewman was executed at Dachau in Sept 1944. She posthumously ...

2026-03-24T11:11:40Z

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Plewman was executed at Dachau in Sept 1944.

She posthumously received the Croix Du Guerre and the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct. A street in Marseilles is named after her.
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#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the ...

2026-03-24T11:11:35Z

#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE

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A German guard once asked O'Sullivan what was in her ...

2026-03-23T09:00:04Z

A German guard once asked O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.

Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2

#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham ...

2026-03-22T09:00:07Z

#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.

Photo: Paula Allen.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/greenham-women-22-march-1982/

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the ...

2026-03-21T09:15:01Z

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

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

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

When she'd been in France with the British Special Operations ...

2026-03-21T09:00:08Z

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When she'd been in France with the British Special Operations Executive, the Nazis had nicknamed Hall "the limping lady". This was because she had lost a leg in a shooting accident before the war, and used a prosthetic. She called it 'Cuthbert'.

Planning her escape over the Pyrenees in 1942, Hall told London she was worried about Cuthbert. Not knowing who Cuthbert was, London messaged back:

"If Cuthbert troublesome, eliminate him."
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#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied ...

2026-03-21T09:00:03Z

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.

Previously with the British SOE, Hall returned with the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and trained 3 battalions of resistance fighters.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win ...

2026-03-20T10:18:28Z

#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the 1,100-mile trans-Alaska #Iditarod dog sled race.

Watch a contemporary news report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P9_48VLB0I

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

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 2012, Berta Soler and dozens of other ...

2026-03-18T10:00:12Z

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 2012, Berta Soler and dozens of other 'Ladies in White' activists are arrested for demanding the release of political prisoners in Cuba. In 2025, she was awarded Poland's Lech Wałęsa Solidarity Prize.

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s ...

2026-03-18T09:30:02Z

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.

OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action.

Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #London #Histodons

“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a ...

2026-03-18T09:00:04Z

“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons

Jerrie Mock set off two days later on her own solo flight, using ...

2026-03-17T09:00:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…up26
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Jerrie Mock set off two days later on her own solo flight, using a different route that took less time. Mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world.

Merriam Smith, a commercial pilot, was killed while on a test flight of a modified plane the following year. A recent biography of Merriam Smith, Fate on a Folded Wing, was written by Tiffany Ann Brown whose pilot grandmother Trixie died on the same test flight.

https://carvehername.org.uk/women-solo-flights/
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#OnThisDay, 17 Mar 1964, Joan Merriam Smith set off from Oakland ...

2026-03-17T09:00:08Z

#OnThisDay, 17 Mar 1964, Joan Merriam Smith set off from Oakland airport in California in an attempt to fly solo around the world. She followed Amelia Earhart’s easterly route from 1937 as far as New Guinea where Earhart had vanished.

Merriam Smith arrived back in Oakland on 12 May 1964, the first pilot to successfully make a solo circumnavigation by the equatorial route.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #AmericanHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

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The film includes Buckmaster, the head of SOE, playing himself ...

2026-03-16T18:08:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…huwk
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The film includes Buckmaster, the head of SOE, playing himself and Sansom was an advisor on it.

It has the odd clunky choice (why the to-camera intro by Buckmaster?), and should come with a warning it shows a recreation of her torture and the concentration camp. All very PG though.
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If you follow us for Special Operations Executive content, the ...

2026-03-16T18:07:59Z

If you follow us for Special Operations Executive content, the 1950 film 'Odette' is on the BBC iPlayer at the moment. Based on the story of Odette Sansom, who was captured and sent to Ravensbrück to die. She survived, and testified against some of the guards.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b01rxcv4/odette
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(Note for British followers: yes, there is only one way to settle ...

2026-03-16T09:00:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…yrus
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(Note for British followers: yes, there is only one way to settle this...)
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#OnThisDay, 16 Mar 1876, Rose Harland and Nelly Saunders step ...

2026-03-16T09:00:14Z

#OnThisDay, 16 Mar 1876, Rose Harland and Nelly Saunders step into the ring at Harry Hill's bar for the first all-woman boxing match in the USA.

No illustration of Rose and Nelly, so here's a poster for the bar.

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #ThisGirlCan #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#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

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the ...

2026-03-13T09:00:44Z

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.

She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.

“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”

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

And finally, I've updated our version of the Indie Champions ...

2026-03-12T15:50:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…55w8
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And finally, I've updated our version of the Indie Champions list, where we only include books by women and non-binary people.

A surprising amount from the Booker International Writing shortlist this year, including two by Iranian women.
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2026-books-by-women-and-non-binary-writers

If non-fiction is more your thing, the Women's Prize long ...

2026-03-12T15:29:18Z

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If non-fiction is more your thing, the Women's Prize long list for non-fiction is here: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2026-women-s-prize-for-non-fiction-long-list

We've just updated our online bookshelves with the long list ...

2026-03-12T15:22:40Z

We've just updated our online bookshelves with the long list for the Women's Prize for fiction!

If there's a book you're thinking about getting, buying via our online shop supports indie bookshops in the UK and may give us a little affiliate payback too.

https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2026-women-s-prize-for-fiction-long-list

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#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as ...

2026-03-12T14:43:08Z

#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.

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

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 2006 and 11 Mar 2014, Michelle Bachelet was ...

2026-03-11T09:58:33Z

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 2006 and 11 Mar 2014, Michelle Bachelet was sworn in as President of Chile. She was the first woman to hold the role, and the first to be re-elected to it.

She was subsequently the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights (2018-2022) where she was criticized for visiting China. She is in the running to be the next General Secretary of the UN: if selected she would be the first woman to hold the role.

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin ...

2026-03-11T09:45:36Z

#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

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London ...

2026-03-11T09:15:01Z

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/