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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, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.

This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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The silent sentinels standing in front of the white House with their banners demanding the vote. They are all white women in long skirts.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 9 Nov 1994, voters in Sri Lanka elected Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga as their President. She was sworn in on 12 Nov and served for ten years.

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in the 1990s. She is a Sri Lankan woman wearing a sari.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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On this day in 1946, Viola Desmond's car broke down in New Glasgow, NS. She went to a movie and sat in a Whites-Only area. Her refusal to move helped spark the modern Canadian civil rights movement.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2025/02/04/v...
A black-and-white portrait of a woman with neatly styled, voluminous hair, wearing a light-colored dress and a heart-shaped necklace. She is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile.
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.

But beware...
Rosalind Franklin at her microscope
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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#OnThisDay, 8 Nov 1938, Crystal Bird Fauset is elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, becoming the first African-American woman state legislator.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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Black and white photo of Crystal Bird Fauset sitting with Eleonor Roosevelt. Fauset is on the left of the picture and is a black woman in a light dress. Roosevelt is on the right, and is a white woman in a dark dress.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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JEANNETTE RANKIN (1880-1973) was ardent pacifist, she was the only member of congress to vote against entering WW1 & WW2. In 1968, she lead a peace march with 5000 women to protest the Vietnam war. #History #Herstory
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“I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.”

#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 1916, Jeanette Rankin is elected to the US House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to the House.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
black and white photo of Jeanette Rankin in the 1920s. She is a white woman with fair or red hair.
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).

She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.

#ReadMoreWomen
Margaret Atwood holding a copy of The Blind Assassin after winning the Booker in 2000. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo congratulate each other on jointly winning the prize in 2019. Atwood is a white woman with white hair, and Evaristo is a Black woman with natural hair.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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“I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.”

#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 1916, Jeanette Rankin is elected to the US House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to the House.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
black and white photo of Jeanette Rankin in the 1920s. She is a white woman with fair or red hair.
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 6 Nov 2012, Elizabeth Warren is elected US Senator for Massachusetts: the first woman to represent the State.

Her reading of Coretta Scott King's criticism of Jeff Sessions at his AG confirmation hearing prompted criticism, in turn creating the slogan #NeverthelessShePersisted.
Photo of Elizabeth Warren at a podium on her campaign trail. She is a white woman with blonde hair.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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We know Clara Barton. But have you heard of Laura Birkhead?
During World War I, she ran ambulance services, hospitals, and organized relief for French war orphans—she earned the French Medal of Honor. 
Her story is a reminder that history is full of quiet heroes.
https://tinyurl.com/4t6464jd 🗃️
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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My series ‘Intimate Histories’ about how history is not some abstract thing that happened to someone else, but personal to all of us is now available on BBC Sounds.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
BBC Sounds - Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Intimate Histories by Hallie Rubenhold on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.

Nine of the voters were initially reported as a "minor topic".

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WotesForWomen 🗃️

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MINOR TOPICS. Miss SUSAN B. ANTHONY has had the honour of leading to the polls the advanced guard of the coming squadrons of female voters. The little band of nine ladies whose ballots were received by the election inspectors at Rochester deserve a permanent place in history, We have heard before of solitary instances of the recognition of the female franchise; but this picket guard of nine is a tangible enough force to make people reflect on the future possibilities which it involves. The fact is not stated, but we may assume with tolerable certainty that the nine ladies at Rochester showed their capacity for an intelligent exercise of the franchise by voting for GRANT and DIX.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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New on the blog! Esther Freeman from @share-uk.bsky.social explores the different ways women have used food throughout history, and how we can reframe it as a powerful political tool #womenshistory

womenshistorynetwork.org/kitchen-resi...
Kitchen Resistance: how women used food to fight back – Esther Freeman
I’d been in the Women’s Library at LSE for hours, going through oral history transcripts in the Women Against Pit Closures collection. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I felt close to tears. The…
womenshistorynetwork.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#OnThisDay, 4 Nov 2012, Fawzia Yusuf Adam became the first woman to be Foreign Affairs Minister for Somalia. She also became Deputy Prime Minister. She was in post until Jan 2014.

Fawzia Yusuf Adam in 2013. She is a Black woman wearing a black and silver hijab.
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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We've just updated our bookshop's "popular and shortlisted" list for autumn 2025, if you're starting buying books for pressies.

If you buy books from our lists, we may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops and us. UK only.

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November 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1992, voters in Illinois, USA, make Carol Moseley Braun the first African-American US Senator. She takes up office in 1993.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
A campaign badge for Carol Moseley Braun, and a portrait photo of her. She is a Black woman with a classic 1990s blow-out hair do.
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1914, American Mary Phelps Jacob is granted a US patent for the brassiere.

This is one of the more straightforward moments in her life. Thread. 👇

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #FashionHistory 🗃️

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Caresse Cosby with her whippet. She is a white woman in a patterned dress and a huge hat. The whippet is a whippet.
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon is the first woman elected to any US state senate, getting more votes than her husband in the Utah election. The local Dem paper said: “Mrs. Mattie Hughes Cannon is the better man of the two.“

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Photo of the Utah Senate in 1897. Mattie Hughes Cannon is stood in the front row, just left of the centre. Everyone is white.
November 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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#OnThisDay, 28 Oct 1908, Muriel Matters, Violet Tillard and Helen Fox unfurl a banner and then chain themselves to the grille in the Ladies Gallery in the House of Commons, London, demanding votes for women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Dramatic newspaper illustration of Muriel Matters being taken away along with the trellis she had chained herself to.
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Recommend this podcast if you want to know more - Inside the Magdalene Laundries www.podbean.com/ea/dir-y5e8f...
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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🚨 Amelia King, volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943, was rejected by Essex farmers. This week's Substack post on John Scurr House in Stepney looks at the racial discrimination suffered by residents and its later redevelopment.
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Contemporary leaflet protesting against the discrimination shown again a young black volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943.
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Repost in UK time. We post NZ and Aus facts at 2am UK time so they are *just* on the right date over there.
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#OnThisDay, 26 October 2017, Jacinda Ardern was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Aotearoa New Zealand.

She was the third woman to be NZ PM (after Jenny Shipley in 1997 and Helen Clark in 1999) and served two terms.

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Jacinda Ardern giving a press conference on the day she was sworn in. She is white woman with black hair.
October 26, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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#OnThisDay, 26 October 2017, Jacinda Ardern was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Aotearoa New Zealand.

She was the third woman to be NZ PM (after Jenny Shipley in 1997 and Helen Clark in 1999) and served two terms.

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Jacinda Ardern giving a press conference on the day she was sworn in. She is white woman with black hair.
October 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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And the women and children are still seeking their families, medical cards and health supports and the burial places of their children...
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#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 1996, the last “Magdalene laundry” in Ireland closes.

In 2013, the Irish government issued a formal state apology to the women forced to work in the homes.

#IrishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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A young girl standing by a huge mangle, with mounds of laundry behind her. Other workers are in the background. 15 women and girls working in a laundry room.
October 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 2018, Sahle-Work Zewde was unanimously elected as President of Ethiopia by its parliament.

Her election was a week after the Prime Minister had appointed a gender equal cabinet.

Sahle-Work was the first woman to be President and served until 2024.
Sahle-Work Zewde standing in front of a UN flag. She is a Black woman with dark hair that is turning silver at the temples.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM