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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.

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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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February 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#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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February 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
#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.
February 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
#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 🗃️
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#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 🗃️
February 13, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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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
#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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February 12, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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
#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 🗃️
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
#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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February 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#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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February 10, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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 🗃️

February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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 🗃️
February 8, 2026 at 9:00 AM
📚 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
#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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February 7, 2026 at 11:28 AM
“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 🗃️
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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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 🗃️
February 6, 2026 at 2:30 AM
#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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February 6, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#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 🗃️
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
#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 🗃️
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#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 🗃️
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM