Very early #OnThisDay, 14 Aug 1943, Eliane Plewman parachutes into Nazi-occupied France to become a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier would move messages and equipment between people.
Captured after 7 months, she was executed in Dachau in Sept 1944.
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#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney. She was denied her place, and left saying she "protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."
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The Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska Friday is being rushed through without the diplomatic groundwork that could lead to a lasting peace for Ukraine.
A veteran diplomat warns the Trump-Putin summit is unlikely to produce results (and is hauntingly similar to the history of the Hitler-Chamberlain meeting in Munich).
https://theconversation.com/this-isnt-how-wars-are-ended-a-veteran-diplomat-explains-how-trump-putin-summit-is-amateurish-and-politically-driven-262995
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1963, American writer Betty Friedan's book 'The Feminine Mystique' is published in the USA.
It is widely credited as kick-starting second wave feminism, and identified social expectations of femininity as a driver of women's unhappiness.
I'm delighted to share that our special issue of Geschichte & Gesellschaft on "Racism and Antiracism in Europe", edited by Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ and me, has been published.
"It provides historical depth to current debates by examining the history of #racism and #antiracism in the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland, and Poland, asking how racialized thinking is constructed, encoded, normalized, and put to work, and showing how antiracist actions have exposed and contested these discourses and practices. Taken together, the articles in this special issue retrieve local and national histories while challenging ingrained notions of “non-racialized” Europe that emerged in opposition to the racist atrocities of the era of European colonialism and National Socialism." (From our introduction.)
If you would like to read the articles but don't have institutional access, please email us.
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 2014, women ski jump for the first time at the winter Olympics. Carina Vogt (pictured) wins gold.
Previous objections to the event included a man saying, in 2005, that it was “not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”. *In 2005*.
#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.
Chapeau!
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#OnThisDay, 20 Feb 1935, Danish-Norwegian Caroline Mikkelsen sets foot on Antarctica. She was the first woman documented to have landed on the continent when she stepped onto the Tryne Islands. Mount Caroline Mikkelsen is named after her.
Ingrid Christensen stepped foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937.
#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.
In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#OnThisDay, 28 Feb 1909, the first national Woman's Day is held in the USA. Suggested by Theresa Malkiel of the Socialist Party of America's Woman's National Committee, the idea is taken up in Europe and evolves into International Women's Day (normally 8 March).
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#OnThisDay, 29 Feb 1940, Hattie McDaniel wins the best supporting actress Oscar for her role in 'Gone With the Wind'.
She is the first person of colour to win an Oscar.
You can read more about McDaniel’s Oscar on our blog: https://carvehername.org.uk/hattie-mcdaniels-oscar/
#WomenInHistory #WomenInHollywood #HollywoodHistory #Histodons
Very early #OnThisDay, 29 Feb 1944, Madeleine Damerment parachuted into occupied France to be an agent for the British Special Operations Executive.
She was French, and had previously run escape lines for downed airmen. She escaped France in 1942, and then chose to return.
She was immediately arrested when she landed as the network had been betrayed. She was executed at Dachau in Sept 1944.
#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the provisional president of Haiti, the first woman to hold the role.
She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.
“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”
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“…with sufficient general agreement and determination among the dominant classes, the truth of history may be utterly distorted and contradicted and changed to any convenient fairy tale that the masters of men wish.”
“The propaganda of history,“ in Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1935.
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Image: W.E.B. Du Bois, 1946 (Source: Carl Van Vechten Photographs, Yale University).
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
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#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.
Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.
Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Sept 1943, Pearl Witherington parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French Resistance. A courier was tasked with moving papers and equipment around their network.
Witherington takes over leadership of her network, eventually commanding 1,500 maquis and overseeing the surrender of 18,000 German troops.
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#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel.
Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s licence and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. She also made money as the advertising face of a grape juice. She died in July 1912 when her plane pitched forward at 1,000 feet and she was thrown out.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 25 Sept 1942, Lise de Baissac and Andrée Borrel parachute into occupied France to become Special Operations Executive agents. They are the first women to parachute in.
Lise survives the war, dying in 2004. Andrée is captured in 1943, and killed at Natzweiler concentration camp in 1944.
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“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves."
#OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides.
Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/sixty-years-of-silent-spring/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
American democracy keeps facing the same test. Reconstruction. Watergate. January 6th. Each was an inkblot: some saw freedom and law, others tyranny and betrayal.
The danger isn’t just the crisis—it’s perception unmoored from fact. A lie, repeated often enough, creates its own inkblot. Not to reveal the viewer. But to control them.
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“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”
#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.
Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/
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Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.
Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
The song ‘Born in the USA’ has been used in iconic – and ironic – ways.
An example is in 1984, when Ronald Reagan used the song in his reelection and announced that Bruce Springsteen and him shared the same American dream. The Boss vehemently disagreed.
https://theconversation.com/born-in-the-usa-turns-40-and-still-remains-one-of-bruce-springsteens-most-misunderstood-songs-228348
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