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

We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends.

https://carvehername.org.uk/ and https://linktr.ee/CarveHerName
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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, 6 Jan 1971, the Militant Mothers of Raymur, 25 women from the Raymur Place housing project in Vancouver, blockaded the railway tracks to demand a overpass so their children could safely get to school.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory
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A group of women, both white and Black, sit or stand on railway tracks. Some have brought kitchen chairs, and others have built a makeshift tent. Photo is from March 1971, and was taken by Gordon Sedawie.
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#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.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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Posed photo of Maria Montessori at a small desk. She is typically dressed for a white middle-class European of the time.
January 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Join us for a free one-day conference on 14 January at the Shaw Library, LSE, to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. Speakers include Sally Alexander, Elizabeth Crawford, Caroline Derry, Clara Jones and Carmen Mangion.

Email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com if you'd like to come.
fotwl.bsky.social Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks Carmen. Look forward to seeing you!
carmenmangion.bsky.social Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social · 2d
Look forward to speaking at the conference on 14 Jan 2026 at the LSE that will explore The Women's Library's sources on activism in the fields of religion, sexuality, and national and international politics. Email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com if you wish to attend. @fotwl.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 2012, Portia Simpson Miller is sworn in as Prime Minister of Jamaica, having been re-elected in the December elections.
studio portrait photo of Portia Simpson Miller in 2012. She is a black woman with straight hair.
January 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#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 🗃️
Nellie Tayloe Ross in 1925, standing on some steps with three men. They are all white.
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#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.

#BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
black and white photo of Rose Heilbron in her judicial robes, with male judges in the background. They are all white. Rose is looking to camera and smiling.
January 4, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#OnThisDay, 4 Jan 1944, Anne-Marie Walters parachutes into France as a British Special Operations Executive agent. SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

In Aug 1944 she escapes over the Pyrenees. She writes a book about her work.

#WorldWar2 #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory 🗃️
Cover of "Moondrop to Gascony" by Anne Marie Walters. The cover illustration is a woman dragging her parachute to the ground.
January 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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I have the joy of working with a fantastic collective of feminist legal scholars as part of the Feminist Legal Studies Editorial Board. As a journal, we seek to publish engaging critical feminist research in both traditional scholarly and more creative formats.

Check it out and share with others.
flsjournal.bsky.social Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 5d
Happy New Year! 🎊

In 2026, as ever, critical feminist legal scholarship has an important role to play in shaping dialogues about freedom, justice, and community.

As an interdisciplinary journal, we welcome critical feminist work. Consider submitting your work to us: link.springer.com/journal/10691
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January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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#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.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #WomenOnStage #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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Cover of the NY Met programme for Aida, showing Price mid-song. She is a black woman with an afro, with her arms up to her face as she sings.
January 3, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#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 🗃️
Black and white photo of Minnie Craig in the 1930s. She is a white woman looking to camera whilst sat at a desk.
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#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 🗃️
Photo of Sharon Pratt Kelly on election night. She is a black woman in a suit, with three taller black men around her.
January 2, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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#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 🗃️
Photo of Sherry Lansing at a press conference. She is a white woman with dark hair, leaning on her hands.
January 2, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1969, Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous autobiographical play 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' opens off-Broadway in New York City.

#LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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Press photo of Lorraine Hansberry in her New York apartment. She is a black woman with short hair, leaning on a heavy typewriter.
January 2, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#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:
www.ted.com/talks/el...

#WomenInSTEM
Elizabeth Murchison in a posed photo at the door of her lab. She is a white woman with dark hair. Her lab door has a yellow roadsign on it, warning of Tasmanian Devils for the next 10km.
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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“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.
Dilma Rousseff and her daughter standing in the back of a car as part of a parade celebrating her win. Dilma Rousseff at her show trial in the 1970s. She is sat in a t-shirt and jeans in front of a bench of military officers acting as judges. They have hidden their faces from the camera.
January 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1983, 44 women climb the fence of Greenham Common airbase and dance on the missile silos.

Photo by Raissa Page.

#PeaceActivism #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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Photo taken by Raissa Page with dozens of women in silhouette on the top of a missile silo that is under construction. They are holding hands. In the foreground is barbed wire and police cars.
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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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.

uk.bookshop.org/a/15... (affiliate link)

#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
painting of Mary Shelley by Rothwell. It shows a white woman with sloping shoulders, dark hair and gold glasses. Frontispiece of Frankenstein’s first edition without any author’s name on it.
January 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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#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:
www.ted.com/talks/el...

#WomenInSTEM
Elizabeth Murchison in a posed photo at the door of her lab. She is a white woman with dark hair. Her lab door has a yellow roadsign on it, warning of Tasmanian Devils for the next 10km.
January 1, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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#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
Maria Zuber at a press conference in 2011. She is a white woman with blonde hair. She has both hands up, like she is in the middle of explaining how Ebb and Flow would orbit the moon.
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#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.
December 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Betty & Nancy Debenham twin sisters on #BSA motorcycle which they promoted with dog Poncho. 1928 wrote Motorcycling for Women describing motorcycle as the "magic carpet of the town dweller" Competed in trials events Nancy won gold medal @ Brooklands Recetrack en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_a...
betty and nancy debenham and poncho the dog all on a motorcycle with a kettle and a bag of golf clubs
December 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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We've been on a break! Hello to our new followers, and thank you to our existing ones.
December 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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#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.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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1975 advert showing a man and a woman both dressing shop dummies. Headline reads "after 29 December it will be against the law for Jill to be paid less than Jack"
December 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori seats in Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo is from 1908.

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

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A group of Māori women sat outside a polling station in 1908. They are in typical Edwardian fashions, including some natty straw boater hats.
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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'Though completely eclipsed by Don Quixote, Cristalián de España, which was first published in 1545, has a unique claim to fame. Its 800 pages, bristling with swords, sorcerers, dragons and damsels, make up the earliest known work by a female Spanish novelist.' 1/2
‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot
Beatriz Bernal’s pioneering novel features brave, chivalrous women who ride dragons and her adapter wants his illustrated version to reach young readers
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM