#OnThisDay, 28 May 1944, Sonia Butt parachutes into occupied France as an explosives expert for the British Special Operations Executive. She'd turned 20 two weeks earlier.
She trained the maquis and coordinated sabotage operations. She was never captured.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 28 May 1990, Maiden, captained by Tracy Edwards, crosses the finishing line to become the first all-woman crew to complete the Round the World yacht race.
Leyland Motors For All Time
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/leyland-motors-for-all-time-justin-farrimond.html
One of seven clocks erected by Leyland Motors in 1931 on trunk roads throughout the country. This one was originally on the A6 at Shap Fell before being moved to the current site in Kendal, Cumbria, in 1973.
#PhotoOfTheDay #Heritage #Photography #ArtPrint #Travel #History #Clock #Kendal #Cumbria #Vintage
Faces.
We express ourselves through the set of our mouth, the light that comes from our eyes, a tilt of the head.
So much we say without having to utter a word.
Through the Ages art print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/through-the-ages-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
#art #artwork #women #history #face #drawing #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #indigenous #communication #artist #decor
The past 3 weeks, I have traced the arc of the Black Loyalists’ journey. Some of you have asked about a place where everything can be read together.
Read free the 3-part extended series here:
I: A Record of Ink and Sacrifice
https://400years.substack.com/p/a-record-written-in-ink-and-sacrifice
II: No Certainty But the Sea
https://400years.substack.com/p/no-certainty-but-the-sea
III: A Town of Huts
https://400years.substack.com/p/a-town-of-huts
These are not monuments. They are evidence.
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Image: Rev. Soldier Re-enactor, by Ken Bohrer, American Rev Photo.
"You need not be afraid to give us our rights for fear we will take too much, for we won't take more than our pint'll hold."
#OnThisDay, 29 May 1851, Sojourner Truth addresses the Woman's Rights Convention in Ohio.
Her speech is commonly known as 'ain't I a woman' although that comes from a dubious transcript that uses racial tropes.
Read more about that at https://www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-speeches/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Walter Funk’s postwar testimony confirms Hitler’s early financial ties to Ruhr industrialists Emil Kirdorf and Fritz Thyssen exposing how corporate collusion with fascism was systemic in nature.
Kirdorf chaired Deutsche Bank’s committee and hosted 300+ industrialists at his 1927 birthday. Thyssen, Europe’s steel magnate, funneled industry funds to the NSDAP. Both leveraged the Bergbauverein to bankroll Hitler, with Kirdorf controlling its treasury.
In 1783, nearly 3,000 Black Loyalists arrived in Nova Scotia—free in name, but not in fate. Promised land and liberty, they built settlements from bark and memory, while the empire marked their freedom with boundaries. It is a story of what they built, what was taken, and what remains. #Juneteenth #Histodons #politics #BlackMastodon #history #photography
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Image: Temporary shelters the Black Loyalists lived in on their arrival in Nova Scotia in 1783. Black Loyalists Heritage Center, NS.
America has always called it redemption:
Men wept for Lee but left the freedmen to starve.
They built statues to defeat but none to repair.
They praised the Union, then walked away from Reconstruction—as if justice had already spoken.
We are a nation that learns through fire—and then forgets the flame.
Not all pain is redemptive. Not all suffering is equal.
#history
Image: Flooding, Kerrville, TX, July 4, 2025. Eric Vryn/ Getty.
Image: Detention Camp, Everglades, FL. AP/R. Blackwell.
#OnThisDay, 11 Jun 1987, Diane Abbott is elected to the British Parliament. She is the first Black woman to become an MP.
Abbott has held shadow cabinet posts in the Labour party, and is the longest serving Black MP. She currently holds the title "Mother of the House", given to the female MP with the longest uninterrupted service in the House of Commons.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!
#solarpunk #history #scienceFiction #rome #climate #purity #writing #imagination #hopepunk #apocalypse
New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/
#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange
#OnThisDay, 12 Jun 1948, the Womens Armed Services Integration Act is signed by US President Truman, allowing women to serve in the military outside wartime.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory
And one by one the lights came on, a reminder -- for those who needed it -- that night was approaching, and with it, the end of the day and all its busyness.
It was a time to be calm, and silent, and rested, because the life of a human being is not meant to be spent in constant, relentless activity.
Lights of Matera canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lights-of-matera-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #italy #europe #travel #sunset #night #city #history #matera #light #ayearforart #artist
47 years ago
Wonderful young ladies at the beginning of their careers 🌹💜
Kate Pierson & Cindy Wilson on the night of the first B-52′s gig at CBGB, June 1978
Photo by Bobby Grossman
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #cbgb #history #punkrockhistory #otd
#art #history: i honestly don't think that even a surrealist master of jean cocteau's calibre could've conceived of the weirdness that is our current reality.
i tip my pen to him, nonetheless, to honour his birth on 5 july, 1889.
#surrealism #illustration #jeanCocteau #artist #film #poet #cinema #polymath
#art #history: harry 80th, debbie, you beautiful juggernaut of talent, originality & humanity.
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#debbieHarry #music #musique #illustration #newJersey #nyc
It's been a while since I first introduced myself here, so thought I'd post an up to date #Introduction.
48 year old with he/him pronouns living in #Manchester in #England. Proud father of two great kids.
A bit of a #Science geek, concerned about #ClimateChange.
Hates fascism and bigotry, and frequently screams into the void exasperated about the global lurch to the right, #NewsTooter
Keen #Cyclist. Enjoys watching #Cricket. Interested in #History.
Feel free to say hello!
#OnThisDay, 14 Jun 1939, Ethel Waters stars in The Ethel Waters Show on NBC, becoming the first black person to have their own show on US TV.
Photo is from her radio show.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #Histodons
How Did Van Gogh Influence Matisse?
The Van Gogh Museum has just acquired its first work by Matisse that reveals the Post-Impressionist's huge influence on Modern art.
by Jo Lawson-Tancred
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/how-did-van-gogh-influence-matisse-2654811
Van Gogh and Matisse at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40393
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=matisse
"The air is the only place free of prejudices."
#OnThisDay, 15 Jun 1921, Bessie Coleman gained her pilot's license, becoming the first civilian African-American pilot in the world. And the first of Native American descent.
Read more about her in our NEW blogpost! https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #AviationHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 16 June 1963, Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, orbiting Earth 48 times in Vostok 6.
She is currently a member of the Russian State Duma (lower house), and supporter of Putin.
#WomenInSpace #SpaceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Politics is a game that hides power. It purports to have "sides" -- A or B, red or blue, good or bad -- so that parasites wield control while followers on each side snipe at one another.
But if we must discuss sides, it should focus on the ridiculously, appallingly rich who grasp, wield, and use power and . . . the rest of us.
We Just Wanted to Be Free canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/we-just-wanted-to-be-free-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#politics #news #USA #history #power #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart
Now online: “The Tree that Never Grew: A Literary Journey Through Glasgow’s History” – Annika Sinner’s talk for Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz’s READING SCOTLAND series, given on 27 May 2025
Alice Austen’s body of work is considered among the earliest and most prolific by a female photographer.
Now recognized for her significant contributions to the canon of American photography and her heretofore ignored yet influential role in LGBTQ+ history, the pioneering photographer's archive returns to her ancestral home in New York.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/alice-austen-photographs-repatriated/
