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Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · Oct 12
Hello!

Every day women have, and are, making history. We tell their stories a day at a time. Follow us for posts about the history women made and are making.

Here's a few notes on what we do.
a woman in a dark room with the word women written on the bottom
Alt: Saoirse Ronan as Jo in Little Women. She's exclaiming "women!!!"
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#OnThisDay, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 🗃️

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snapshot photo of Mary Herbert. She is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a neckerchief and smiling.
February 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 17 Feb 1905, a statue of Frances Willard is unveiled in the US Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Helen Farnsworth Mears's stature of Willard was the first statue of a woman to be included in the Hall.

#StatuesOfWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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a white marble statue of Frances Willard, a woman in late nineteenth century dress.
February 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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#OnThisDay, 17 February 2014, Somayya Anwar Jabarti has her name on the masthead of the daily Saudi Gazette, an English language newspaper, for the first time. She was the first woman to be editor-in-chief of a national newspaper in Saudi Arabia.
Somayya Anwar Jabarti, smiling at the camera. She is an Arabic woman wearing a brown headscarf and glasses.
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.

The picture shows their release the next day.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
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)
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#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 🗃️
Herbertine Auclert sitting at her editor's desk. She is a white woman with dark hair.
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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In the sea.
February 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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#OtD 12 Feb 1970 hundreds of women textile workers at the John Collier factory in Leeds walked out on wildcat strike for pay equality with men. The union denounced the strike, but it spread until the employers agreed pay rises for women and men. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8388...
February 12, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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#OnThisDay, 12 Feb 1983, around 200 to 300 women protested the Law of Evidence in Lahore. The law effectively made women’s testimonies worth half that of men’s.

The police used tear-gas and batons before arresting 50 of the protestors.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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A policeman appears to have a woman in an armlock as they move through a crowd.
February 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Why did this not feature in last year’s Rail200 celebration?

(I’m cackling at the very idea!)
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 2014, women ski jump for the first time at the winter Olympics. Carina Vogt wins gold.

Previous objections to the event included a man saying that it was “not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”. *In 2005*.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
Carina Vogt midair during her ski jumps.
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BlackHistoryMonth 🗃️

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Barbara Harris taking the communion during her consecration. She is a black woman in glasses, and is flanked by two other women priests.
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#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 🗃️

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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 and is the only woman. Everyone is white.
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Mud, glorious mud!

#OnThisDay, 9 Feb 1907, around 3,000 people take part in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies' march through London, demanding the vote.

The weather was dreadful, hence its nickname of “the Mud March”.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory 🗃️

WOMEN! The time has now come when women of all classes who desire the Parliamentary Franchise should demonstrate the sincerity of their demand. TAKE PART in this Procession and prove your earnestness in a manner both effective and constitutional. You will thus strengthen the hands of your supporters in Parliament. URGE ALL your friends to come, and by your numbers make the day memorable for ever, as one which convinced Parliament and the country ripe for your enfranchisement. GREAT DEMONSTRATION Before the Opening of Parliament, to demand the Franchise. UNITED PROCESSION OF WOMEN On SATURDAY, FEB. 9th. To assemble in Hyde Park, Band Stand, Hyde Park Corner, at 2 p.m. It goes on to list speakers etc.
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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These are the eighteen women elected as MPs in Turkey #OnThisDay, 8 Feb 1935. It was the first time women in Turkey could vote, and stand, in parliamentary elections.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory 🗃️
Grid of photos showing the eighteen women elected Top row (left to right): Mebrure Gönenç (Afyon), Hatı Çırpan (Ankara), Türkan Örs Baştuğ (Antalya), Sabiha Gökçül Erbay (Balıkesir), Şekibe İnsel (Bursa), Hatice Özgener (Çankırı); Middle row (left to right): Huriye Öniz Baha (Diyarbakır), Fatma Memik (Edirne), Nakiye Elgün (Erzurum), Fakihe Öymen (Ankara), Benal Nevzat İştar Arıman (İzmir), Ferruh Güpgüp (Kayseri); Bottom row (left to right): Bahire Bediş Morova Aydilek (Konya), Mihri Pektaş (Malatya), Meliha Ulaş (Samsun), Fatma Esma Nayman (Seyhan), Sabiha Görkey (Sivas), Seniha Hızal (Trabzon).
February 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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📚 Support #ReadItForward in February! Buy kids' books through our Bookshop.org UK link AND 10% will go to BookTrust and @scottishbooktrust

We've curated a list of books about women in history for younger readers (and the odd fiction title). Explore it at: uk.bookshop.org/list... *
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Read it forward: books for younger readers
These books and graphic novels are for children and young adults. You know your child's reading age and maturity best.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.*

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.

#WomenInHistory #SwissHistory 🗃️

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1920s suffragists marching through a street. They are pulling a parade float that carries a giant paper mache snail.
February 7, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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“The hecklers were yelling 'Go back to the kitchen and cook dinner'.”

#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1969, Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride as a professional jockey in the USA.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Diane Crump in the centre of the photo, surrounded by security officers escorting her through a hostile crowd of men.
February 7, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in general elections.

#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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A paper copy of the Act, bound with ribbon.
February 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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What a #OTD to celebrate ! Seems a good day to share this interesting #histnursing paper from our latest bulletin ‘Deeds Not Words’: the nurse suffragettes arrested between 1906-1914 ' by Vari Drennan bulletin.ukahn.org/deeds-not-wo...
February 6, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1987, Mary Gaudron QC was the first woman to be sworn as a justice in the High Court of Australia.

#WomenInHistory #AustralianHistory #WomenInLaw 🗃️
Mary Gaudron QC sat at a desk. She is a white woman with light hair in a very 1980s blowout.
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in general elections.

#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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A paper copy of the Act, bound with ribbon.
February 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1987, Mary Gaudron QC was the first woman to be sworn as a justice in the High Court of Australia.

#WomenInHistory #AustralianHistory #WomenInLaw 🗃️
Mary Gaudron QC sat at a desk. She is a white woman with light hair in a very 1980s blowout.
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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#OtD 5 Feb 1981 240 mostly women workers at the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock Scotland occupied it upon learning that it was due to be closed. They held out 7 months until management caved and agreed to a buyout which kept their jobs stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1051...
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.

#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and D W Griffith sitting on a bench together to promote United Artists.
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#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 🗃️
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).
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM