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#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

#ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Toni Morrison in the 1980s. She is a black woman with greying locs that have been tied back.

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#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.

Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Jane Byrne sat in front of the city of Chicago seal. She is a white woman with blonde hair.

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#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.

A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.

Watch: https://buff.ly/38djBcP

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

Betty Boothroyd in her Speaker's robes in the 1990s. She is a white woman with grey hair in some very bling black and gold robes.

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Betty Boothroyd on the election campaign trail in the 1970s. She is a white woman with fair hair.

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#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire.

The Privy Council picked Anna as she was widowed and childless. They imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her.

She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.

Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.

*Old Style date

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory

illustration of Anna ripping up the Conditions as part of her coronation.

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#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.

She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK #Histodons

line drawing illustration of Empress Matilda.

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"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Dr Mary Edwards Walker with her medal. She is a white woman with dark hair. She's wearing a dress and looking miserable about it.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is wearing a wing collar shirt with a cravat, a heavy overcoat and a top hat. She is a white woman with white hair.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is wearing a trouser suit, overcoat and scarf, and carrying a top hat. She is a white woman with white hair.

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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

She's never captured.

She died in 2023, in New Zealand.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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photo of Phyllis Latour during the 1940s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

Studio portrait of Nancy Wake in uniform, showing her parachute badge. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 5 May 1938, Dorothy Anderson presents her medical research identifying cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #CysticFibrosis #Histodons

Dorothy Anderson sat behind a desk. She's a white woman with dark hair and is wearing a white doctor's coat.

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“Have ye come far?”
“Only from America.”

#OnThisDay, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman - and only the second person - to fly solo and without stops across the Atlantic.

She lands unexpectedly in Ireland. There’s some wonderful images of her here: https://joecampbellart.com/2015/03/12/amelia-earhart-in-ireland-solo-atlantic-crossing-may-21st-1932/

Watch newsreel of her taking off here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-itPeJOyzI

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory @histodons #Histodons

Amelia Earhart sitting on the wheel of her small prop plane, posing for photos. She's a white woman with cropped hair and dressed in a flight suit.

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#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment.

In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.

We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

Police mugshots of Aili Jürgenson after her arrest. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 9 May 1922, the International Astronomical Union formally adopts Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system. The principles in it still underpin modern classification.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Astronomy #WomenInSTEM #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Annie Jump Cannon sat at a desk. She is clearly not a fan of a clear desk policy as it's messy with papers and open drawers. She is a white woman with pale hair.

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#OnThisDay, 11 May 1978, Margaret Brewer becomes the first woman to reach the rank of General in the US Marines.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

Margaret Brewer in her US Marine dress uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

Vera Leigh in uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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#OnThisDay, 16 May 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei reaches the summit of Everest. She is the first woman to make it to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

A climber in a thick orange suit standing on the snow-capped top of Mount Everest and holding onto a Japanese flag.

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The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution

by Emma Schwak

Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit.

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-first-influencers-were-french-and-they-emerged-after-the-revolution-286859?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Diversity%20in%20the%20World%20Cup%20-%203867739403&utm_content=Diversity%20in%20the%20World%20Cup%20-%203867739403+CID_8f3fa84c054f2dc99e8f6f99d1012e1e&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=The%20worlds%20first%20influencers%20were%20French%20and%20they%20emerged%20after%20the%20Revolution

Books about Madame Récamier at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Madame+R%C3%A9camier

#books #literature #WomenInHistory

A painting by Jacques-Louis David of French socialite and Neoclassical icon Madame Récamier whose salon in Paris attracted leading literary and political circles in the early 19th-century.

A famous 1800 portrait of Madame Récamier, reclining on a Neoclassical daybed in a simple white empire-waist gown, with a bronze floor lamp beside her.

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“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

An engraving of Abigail Adams from around the 1850s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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