#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1786, Caroline Herschel discovers comet C/1786 P1, becoming one of the first women to find one (and have it named after her). Her brother was appointed court astronomer to King George III. When Caroline took a government salary for helping him she became the first woman to be paid for her astronomical work.
This week, 2025, Prof Michele Dougherty became the first woman to be Astronomer Royal.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
Leeds City Museum
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/leeds-city-museum-justin-farrimond.html
Is it the hippo, the tiger or bear, or an elk that you seek from here and elsewhere?
The Leeds City Museum in West Yorkshire, England. Now occupying the former Mechanic's Institute in what was Cookridge Street, renamed Millenium Square.
#PhotoOfTheDay #Architecture #Museum #Photography #Monochrome #Heritage #BnW #History #Leeds #Travel
“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Is Oedipus Rex the Mother of All Drama?
Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex (aka Oedipus the King) … Is it the mother of all Western drama? The father? Or both?
By Thom Delapa
https://www.thecollector.com/oedipus-rex-mother-drama/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex
Oedipus King of Thebes by Sophocles at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27673
Meet the Mysterious and Brooding Norwegian Painter Responsible for 'The Scream'
Born on this day in 1863, Edvard Munch lived a life marked by mental health struggles and sought to brush themes of anxiety and dread into his art
By Eli Wizevich
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.
#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
The founders’ version of #memes and trash talk involved making obscure references to orators, philosophers, senators, consuls, and generals of the ancient republics.
https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/19/if-you-can-keep-it-from-caesar-and-catiline/
#history #culture #philosophy #Renaissance #SPQR #American #shitposting
Happy Birthday to Kathryn 'Kathy' Valentine, songwriter and bassist for the pop punk band the Go-Go's, born on this day in 1959, Austin, Texas
Photo by Pam Martinez at the Roxy Theater in 1981
#punk #punkrock #kathyvalentine #thegogos #womenofpunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd
After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook
A 19th-century scholar claimed that “Cocker’s Arithmetick” had “probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible”
By James Fox
1716 edition of Cocker's Arithmetick is available at @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_cockers-arithmetick-be_cocker-edward_1716/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater
Nonlinear Careers of Scientists through History
For some, the path to a career in science can be straightforward: good grades in high school science classes lead to a college degree in science, which leads to work in science. Indeed, many acclaimed scientists have taken a similar route. But this isn’t the only option.
By Corinne Mona
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 16 Jan 1970, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement.
In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil.
Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking
The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.
By Bridget Quinn
What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
The Scientific Revolution was characterized by a major shift in the way of thinking. Historically, women’s contributions, however, were largely overlooked.
By Mike Cohen
https://www.thecollector.com/role-of-women-in-scientific-revolution/
#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.
In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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44,000-Year-Old Animal Painting Found In A Cave In Indonesia Could Be The “World’s Oldest Story”
By Natasha Ishak
https://allthatsinteresting.com/indonesia-oldest-cave-painting
#history #asianhistory #archelogy
Map of East India Isles drawn in 1813
The Book of Negroes is more than a ledger—it is a story pressed into parchment, a testament to the brutal arithmetic of freedom. It begins in the final days of the American Revolution, a conflict that promised liberty but delivered it unevenly.
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#History #BlackMastodon #Education #Histodons #Politics
Image: Rose Fortune came to Nova Scotia after the Revolutionary War, about June 1784. She earned a living as a "trucker," carrying baggage with a wheelbarrow.
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#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 used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
Canadian - This Man is Your Friend. He Fights for Freedom.
US Office of War Information World War II poster, series of anti-fascist allies.
The Case of Caspar David Friedrich
Born 250 years ago, Friedrich reimagined landscape painting by portraying the vastness of nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters.
By: Angelica Frey
A Brief History of the Library of Congress
Today, the Library of Congress holds over 25 million cataloged books, has items in 470 languages, and is home to the papers of 23 presidents, a cuneiform tablet, and a Gutenberg Bible.
By Katie Moench
https://bookriot.com/a-brief-history-of-the-library-of-congress/
More information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
Lucrezia Borgia: Femme Fatale or Innocent Pawn?
https://www.thecollector.com/lucrezia-borgia-femme-fatale-or-innocent-pawn/
Books about the Borgia family at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Borgia&submit_search=Search
There were female gladiators in ancient Rome
https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/there-were-female-gladiators-in-ancient-rome/
