Ceryl
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 AM
María Luisa Pérez-Soba, 1st woman agricultural engineer in #Galicia, 5th in #Spain. 1959 graduated w' degree in agricultural engineering. 1 of 2 women in class of 68 students. PhD 1963, worked @ A Coruña's Ministry of Agriculture. d. #OTD 8 Feb 2021 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)”. 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton, joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social 1929 US rep. b #OTD 8 Feb 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw
February 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM
M Elsa Gardner #AeronauticalEngineer in #WWI & #WWII “I took the Navy for Better or for Worse & I intend to stick by it (because I think it needs the work I can do)”. 1936 1st woman full member of Engineers Club of Dayton, joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social 1929 US rep. b #OTD 8 Feb 1894 bit.ly/2ypqFBw
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Caroline Endres Diescher 1 of 1st women engineers in US. With father John Endres designed 2 funicular (cable railway) inclines in #Pittsburgh - Monongahela Incline & Mount Oliver Incline, opened 1870 & 1871. 1 milion people still use each year. d. #OTD 7 Feb 1930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...
February 7, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Caroline Endres Diescher 1 of 1st women engineers in US. With father John Endres designed 2 funicular (cable railway) inclines in #Pittsburgh - Monongahela Incline & Mount Oliver Incline, opened 1870 & 1871. 1 milion people still use each year. d. #OTD 7 Feb 1930 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolin...
May Assheton Harbord 1912 1st woman to earn Aeronaut's Certificate in UK. Flew gas balloons, crossed English Channel repeatedly. Owned 2 balloons kept near #Battersea gas work. After crash landing, claimed was "only woman who has landed on the Continent on her head" d. #OTD 7 Feb 1928 bit.ly/3pKtIcQ
February 7, 2026 at 10:45 PM
May Assheton Harbord 1912 1st woman to earn Aeronaut's Certificate in UK. Flew gas balloons, crossed English Channel repeatedly. Owned 2 balloons kept near #Battersea gas work. After crash landing, claimed was "only woman who has landed on the Continent on her head" d. #OTD 7 Feb 1928 bit.ly/3pKtIcQ
Lin Lanying #Chinese electrical engineer materials scientist. Spent 8 yrs in US 1957 returned home, manufactured China's 1st monocrystalline silicon & mono-crystal furnace to extract silicon. Laid foundations for microelectronics & optoelectronics. b, #OTD 7 Feb 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Lan...
February 7, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Lin Lanying #Chinese electrical engineer materials scientist. Spent 8 yrs in US 1957 returned home, manufactured China's 1st monocrystalline silicon & mono-crystal furnace to extract silicon. Laid foundations for microelectronics & optoelectronics. b, #OTD 7 Feb 1918 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Lan...
Christine Frederick US home economist. Experiments aimed @ improving household efficiency. Argued women's consumer role vital in mass-production economy. Books incl Household Engineering & Selling Mrs. Consumer justification of planned obsolescence b. #OTD 6 Feb 1883 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
February 6, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Christine Frederick US home economist. Experiments aimed @ improving household efficiency. Argued women's consumer role vital in mass-production economy. Books incl Household Engineering & Selling Mrs. Consumer justification of planned obsolescence b. #OTD 6 Feb 1883 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christi...
1951 Rosemary West graduated in Engineering Sciences, only 3rd woman to do so, working for GEC until sacked after birth of child. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championing women's rights to return to work d. 6 Feb 2013 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
1951 Rosemary West graduated in Engineering Sciences, only 3rd woman to do so, working for GEC until sacked after birth of child. Early microcomputer specialist @wes1919.bsky.social President 1982-3 championing women's rights to return to work d. 6 Feb 2013 www.magnificentwomen.co.uk/engineer-of-...
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Bip Pares #illustrator Created >600 book covers, esp golden age crime thrillers & iconic posters for Transport for London. 1934 designed cover of Electrical Assoc 4 Women's Electrical Handbook, ran for 5 editions. 1940 wrote/illustrated book on #Himalayan honeymoon. d. #OTD 4 Feb 1977 bit.ly/3Kjjo9d
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Bip Pares #illustrator Created >600 book covers, esp golden age crime thrillers & iconic posters for Transport for London. 1934 designed cover of Electrical Assoc 4 Women's Electrical Handbook, ran for 5 editions. 1940 wrote/illustrated book on #Himalayan honeymoon. d. #OTD 4 Feb 1977 bit.ly/3Kjjo9d
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Campaigning Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson said in 1934 "that the twin keys to women’s earthly paradise were the Vote & Electricity" for help in their homes & education to make best use of the help that electricity offers. d. #OTD 6 Feb 1947 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_W...
February 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Campaigning Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson said in 1934 "that the twin keys to women’s earthly paradise were the Vote & Electricity" for help in their homes & education to make best use of the help that electricity offers. d. #OTD 6 Feb 1947 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_W...
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Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Enough is Enough! A talk on the history of nursing cartoons from 1900 to 1980. Join historian Dr Sue Hawkins, cartoonist Cath Jackson, graphic novel editor Corinne Pearlman and Holly Burrows (Cartoon Museum).
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
🕠5:30-7pm, 18 February
📍London
🎟️Free: https://bit.ly/3MefKR1
#ArtOfNursing #HistNursing
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2/6/1887 — b. Florence Luscomb, American architect, suffragist, organizer, orator. Early woman to graduate from M.I.T. with a architecture degree; a partner in a #womenowned #architecture firm in Boston. A prominent suffrage organizer in Massachusetts #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MIT #votingrights
February 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
2/6/1887 — b. Florence Luscomb, American architect, suffragist, organizer, orator. Early woman to graduate from M.I.T. with a architecture degree; a partner in a #womenowned #architecture firm in Boston. A prominent suffrage organizer in Massachusetts #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MIT #votingrights
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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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#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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February 6, 2026 at 9:00 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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#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Campaigning Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson said in 1934 "that the twin keys to women’s earthly paradise were the Vote & Electricity" for help in their homes & education to make best use of the help that electricity offers. d. #OTD 6 Feb 1947 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_W...
February 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Campaigning Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson said in 1934 "that the twin keys to women’s earthly paradise were the Vote & Electricity" for help in their homes & education to make best use of the help that electricity offers. d. #OTD 6 Feb 1947 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_W...
Dorothy Rowntree BSc. 1st woman in UK to qualify in naval architecture & 1st woman to graduate in engineering from @glasgow.ac.uk Worked @ Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard #Govan. Later moved to #Lebanon & worked @ American University of Beirut'. d. #OTD 5 Feb 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
February 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Dorothy Rowntree BSc. 1st woman in UK to qualify in naval architecture & 1st woman to graduate in engineering from @glasgow.ac.uk Worked @ Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard #Govan. Later moved to #Lebanon & worked @ American University of Beirut'. d. #OTD 5 Feb 1988 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy...
Matilde Moisant pioneer aviator. 1911 2nd woman in US to earn pilot's license. Short barn storming (exhibition flying) career. Broke women's altitude world record Stopped flying 1912 when plane crashed. #WWI volunteered at front in France. d. #OTD 5 Feb 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilde...
February 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Matilde Moisant pioneer aviator. 1911 2nd woman in US to earn pilot's license. Short barn storming (exhibition flying) career. Broke women's altitude world record Stopped flying 1912 when plane crashed. #WWI volunteered at front in France. d. #OTD 5 Feb 1964 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilde...
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Jonathan Ferguson 1915-74 UK #pilot @wes1919.bsky.social member #WWII joined Women's Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA Postwar Chief Experimental Officer @ Ministry of Supply. 1958 had F>M gender reassignment surgery. Civil Service stated “will not affect his employment” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
February 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Jonathan Ferguson 1915-74 UK #pilot @wes1919.bsky.social member #WWII joined Women's Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA Postwar Chief Experimental Officer @ Ministry of Supply. 1958 had F>M gender reassignment surgery. Civil Service stated “will not affect his employment” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
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Temporary #ProofOfCat as haven’t done one for a while. She had just explained that it was her chair (throne) and whilst I was welcome to any other surface in the room, and was being encouraged to stay and pay obeisance, this was where she was going to sit and I had to move.
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Temporary #ProofOfCat as haven’t done one for a while. She had just explained that it was her chair (throne) and whilst I was welcome to any other surface in the room, and was being encouraged to stay and pay obeisance, this was where she was going to sit and I had to move.
Bip Pares #illustrator Created >600 book covers, esp golden age crime thrillers & iconic posters for Transport for London. 1934 designed cover of Electrical Assoc 4 Women's Electrical Handbook, ran for 5 editions. 1940 wrote/illustrated book on #Himalayan honeymoon. d. #OTD 4 Feb 1977 bit.ly/3Kjjo9d
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Bip Pares #illustrator Created >600 book covers, esp golden age crime thrillers & iconic posters for Transport for London. 1934 designed cover of Electrical Assoc 4 Women's Electrical Handbook, ran for 5 editions. 1940 wrote/illustrated book on #Himalayan honeymoon. d. #OTD 4 Feb 1977 bit.ly/3Kjjo9d
Geneviève Meurgues French #conservator #chemicalengineer, natural history specimen conservation specialist. Noted for preservation of Marseille Roman boat & creation of Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, part of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. b. 4 Feb 1931 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%...
February 4, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Geneviève Meurgues French #conservator #chemicalengineer, natural history specimen conservation specialist. Noted for preservation of Marseille Roman boat & creation of Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, part of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. b. 4 Feb 1931 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevi%...
Dr Florence Stoney 1st woman UK #radiologist. Qual'd 1898 @ London School of Medicine for Women. Estab X-ray dept @ Elizabeth Garret Anderson hospital. #WWI served @ front line hospitals as head of surgical & X-ray. Early @wes1919.bsky.social memb. b. #OTD 4 Feb 1870 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...
February 4, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Dr Florence Stoney 1st woman UK #radiologist. Qual'd 1898 @ London School of Medicine for Women. Estab X-ray dept @ Elizabeth Garret Anderson hospital. #WWI served @ front line hospitals as head of surgical & X-ray. Early @wes1919.bsky.social memb. b. #OTD 4 Feb 1870 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...
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Join us on 9 February, 6pm online for a seminar in Voluntary Action History series. Mapping the invisible: Using GIS to reconstruct forgotten volunteer networks in 19th-century London by Delzar Sadiq, Salahaddin University in Erbil. #GIS Book here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Mapping the invisible: Using GIS to reconstruct forgotten volunteer networks in 19th-century London
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February 4, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Join us on 9 February, 6pm online for a seminar in Voluntary Action History series. Mapping the invisible: Using GIS to reconstruct forgotten volunteer networks in 19th-century London by Delzar Sadiq, Salahaddin University in Erbil. #GIS Book here www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Temporary #ProofOfCat as haven’t done one for a while. She had just explained that it was her chair (throne) and whilst I was welcome to any other surface in the room, and was being encouraged to stay and pay obeisance, this was where she was going to sit and I had to move.
February 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Temporary #ProofOfCat as haven’t done one for a while. She had just explained that it was her chair (throne) and whilst I was welcome to any other surface in the room, and was being encouraged to stay and pay obeisance, this was where she was going to sit and I had to move.
Anne Gillespie Shaw Scottish engineer businesswoman in time & motion studies. Chief supervisor women workers @ Metropolitan-Vickers, persuaded co to remove marriage bar. 1945 opened consulting co Anne Shaw Organisation Ltd. @wes1919.bsky.social memb d #OTD 4 Feb 1982 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Gi...
February 4, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Anne Gillespie Shaw Scottish engineer businesswoman in time & motion studies. Chief supervisor women workers @ Metropolitan-Vickers, persuaded co to remove marriage bar. 1945 opened consulting co Anne Shaw Organisation Ltd. @wes1919.bsky.social memb d #OTD 4 Feb 1982 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Gi...