#OTD the poem "Casey at the Bat" was published in The San Francisco Examiner (then called The Daily Examiner) in 1888.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_at_the_Bat
Books about baseball at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=baseball
“Annie S. Swan both requires revaluation through her own biography & calls into question easy valorisations of ‘danger’ as expressed in terms of explicit challenge & radicalism. The extent of her appeal & influence demands a more nuanced analysis of the politics of emotion & the gendering of reader response”
—Prof Glenda Norquay on Annie S. Swan (1859–1943) – born #OTD, 8 July
@litstudies
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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/09/08/annie-shepherd-swan/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #romance #womenwriters
"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
Something to die for
To die: to give up life for
to die for means to live for
would we want to die for what
we would not live for?
—“Saving the Planet” by Tessa Ransford (1938–2015) – poet, activist, & founding director of the Scottish Poetry Library – born #OTD, 8 July
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/saving-planet/
The Far Side of Lorna Moon
“I’m always either convinced that nobody can write as I can – or that I’m the world’s louseyest writer.”
Lorna Moon (1886–1930) was born #OTD, 16 June, as Nora Helen Wilson Low, in Strichen. Dr Glenda Norquay writes about her journey from Aberdeenshire to Hollywood
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https://asls.org.uk/the-far-side-of-lorna-moon/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #owmenwriters #screenwriting #Hollywood #HollywoodHistory #film #cinema #Aberdeenshire
#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
“not only is there no invocation of the free market […Smith] plainly sees that government, not private industry, is the only force capable of effectively ‘erecting and maintaining’ the technically unprofitable but nevertheless indispensable ‘publick works’ and ‘publick institutions’ […] essential to every modern state.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790) was baptised #OTD, 16 June. Evan Gottlieb examines Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”
"You have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored."
#OnThisDay, 17 Jun 1873, Susan B Anthony is tried for illegally voting in the 1872 US Presidential election.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism
https://theconversation.com/walter-scott-war-journalism-from-the-waterloo-battlefield-43304
#Scottish #literature #Waterloo #SirWalterScott #19thcentury
#OtD 19 Jun 1843 a crowd of around 4500 "Rebecca" rioters with blackened faces and dressed as women gathered and attacked the Carmarthen workhouse in Wales, and set about destroying it. It took the arrival of a unit of the British army to disperse them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9110/rebecca-rioters-attack-carmarthen-workhouse
#OnThisDay, 18 Jun 1983, Sally Ride is the first woman to be a US astronaut, on board the Challenger shuttle.
A new documentary, 'Sally' (2025, Cristina Costantini) explores her achievements and why she felt she had to hide her sexuality.
#WomenInSpace #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OtD 20 Jun 1905 the King of Sweden publicly ended plans to invade the recently independent Norway. The announcement was prompted by the threat of a nationwide general strike by Swedish unions if mobilisation for war went ahead https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9284/swedish-invasion-of-norway-blocked
I can see da rüfs aa taekit, an da hens aroond da door;
Fok kerryin twartree paets hame, an rigs delled every voar.
Aa da lums ir reekin, an I hear da happy soonds
O peerie bairns skirlin, as dey play dem ower da toons…
—“Da Clearance”, by Rhoda Bulter (1929–94), born #OTD, 15 July
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Listen to Rhoda Bulter reading “Da Clearance” here
https://www.shetlanddialect.org.uk/da-clearance
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Shetland #Shetlandic
French educator Louis Braille was born #OTD in 1809. He was the inventor of a reading and writing system named after him, braille, intended for use by visually impaired people.
At just 15 years old, Braille began refining Barbier's system, developing a code based on a six-dot cell structure that allowed for efficient representation of letters, numbers, and even musical notation.
Circular snapshots from the very first @kodak camera (the first truly portable camera) — invented by George Eastman who was born #onthisday in New York in 1854. more examples here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kodak-no-1-circular-snapshots #OTD
It is a land of wee
hard men and all I
am wanted for is to
stand and cheer…
Prof Alan Riach considers the life & work of the poet & playwright Joan Ure (1918–1978) – born #OTD, 22 June
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#Scottish #literature #poetry #poet #drama #playwright #20thcentury #womenwriters
#OnThisDay, 22 June 1812, Canadian Laura Secord is said to have walked 19 miles to warn British forces of an impending American attack in the War of 1812.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory
“ A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.”
By Alan Turing (born #OTD in 1912). In: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/may/14/alan-turing-gary-kasparov-computer
Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…
Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c.1320–1395) describes the event
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#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage
#OnThisDay, 23 June 1972, US President Nixon signs into law Title IX, prohibiting sexual discrimination in federally funded education programs/activities.
The image is from 1979, as obviously women still had to fight to get the law followed.
#AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OTD, 24 June, in 1314, the Scottish army under King Robert I destroyed a much larger English invasion force at Bannockburn, in one of the most decisive battles in medieval history. In 1793 Robert Burns composed “Scots Wha Hae”, originally entitled “Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn”
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#Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #14thcentury #medieval #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns
Here lies our land: every airt
Beneath swift clouds, glad glints of sun,
Belonging to none but itself…
—Kathleen Jamie, “Here lies our land”
This poem was commissioned in 2014 to mark the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn – fought #OTD, 24 June, 1314. The poem is inscribed on the Bannockburn monument.
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/here-lies-our-land/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn
#OnThisDay, 24 June 1916, Mary Pickford becomes the first Hollywood star to sign a million-dollar contract.
This is Pickford, who was a queen of PR as well as the screen.
At the time, standard studio contracts were for a year. She signed a *two-year* contract as both an actor *and* a producer. That bumped its value across the $1m barrier and got her the headlines.
#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
Is there a whim-inspired fool,
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,
Let him draw near…
Robert Burns (1759–96) died #OTD, 21 July, aged 37. “A Bard’s Epitaph” is the final poem in the 1786 Kilmarnock Edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #RobertBurns #18thcentury #romanticism #epitaph
#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
