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Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️ We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends. carvehername.org.uk and linktr.ee/CarveHerName

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's 9to5 film was based on a grassroots organizing labor movement led by women www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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'A lost history': the US women who fought for better working conditions
PBS documentary on 9to5 shows how women’s organizing efforts in 1970s to better working conditions echos many of today’s social justice movements
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 22 May 2003, Annika Sörenstam teed off at Fort Worth’s Colonial golf club. She became the third woman to play a PGA Tour golf tournament, and the first for over 50 years. One male player withdrew from the contest in protest at her inclusion. Photo is from 2008 LPGA tour.
Annika Sörenstam having just teed off. She is a white woman with blonde hair, holding a golf club.

Photo is by Keith Allison.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory 🗃️ 1/2
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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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 20 May 2016, Tsai Ing-wen was sworn in as President of Taiwan. She is the first woman to hold the role, and was re-elected in 2020. In 2019 she had pushed through the legalisation of same-sex marriage, despite 67% of the country rejecting it in a referendum.
Tsai Ing-wen at her first inauguration. She is a Taiwanese woman with straight black hair in a bob.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.” #OnThisDay, 19 May 1952, Lillian Hellman writes to the House of UnAmerican Activities refusing to testify against others. #HollywoodHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2
Lillian Hellman in a posed photo with a manual typewriter as if writing her letter to HUAC. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Thrilled I've got 150 responses to my survey on personal tutoring! I'm aiming for 200 responses, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral responsibility for students in the last five years, whatever that's called, with ten minutes spare, I'd love to hear from you. Do share if you can.
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The Role Of Interpersonal Relationships And Care In Personal Tutoring Within UK HEIS
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
If you like our posts, please feel free to: 🔁 repost (no algorithm responds to your like) 💬 add more info (if it's your area of expertise) 🪙 toss a coin our way (if you can afford to, link in bio)
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
Helen Sharman walking towards the rocket in her spacesuit but carrying her helmet. She's a white woman with dark hair. A male colleague is walking alongside her.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 18 May 1953, pilot Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory 🗃️
A posed photo of Jackie Cochran sitting on the edge of her plane. She's a white woman with blonde hair and is rather implausibly wearing high heels. Breaking the sound barrier as a pilot? In these shoes? I don't think so.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
We do western Pacific posts at 2am GMT/BST so they just about are on the right date. Then we repost over breakfast. If you were wondering why some of our posts are so “early”
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, #AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2
A visiting card by F W Mason with a photo of Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia. She is a Māori woman in a dark fitted jacket with a pale bow at her neck. Her hair is in a plaited bun. 

Image credit: Mason, Frederick W., photographer. [Copy of Portrait of Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia]. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira. PH-NEG-C5101.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 17 May 1988, Dr Patricia Bath was awarded the first of her three patents on the methods and equipment for laser cataract removal. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
Snapshot of Patricia Bath at her desk in the 1980s. She's a Black woman with black hair in waves.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
17 May is Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day). #OnThisDay, 17 May 1863, María Rosalía Rita de Castro's poetry is published: the first publication by a single author in Galician for 400 years. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Galicia #LiteraryWomen 🗃️📚 1/2
A Spanish bank note which includes a drawing of María Rosalía Rita de Castro.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 17 May 1841, Sarah Losh and her fellow trustees lay the foundation stone of Wreay Church. Sarah designed, funded and had the earliest Romanesque revival church in England built. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Architecture 🗃️ 1/2
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Robert Lock @robertlock.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
womenwhomeantbusiness.com/2021/12/28/e... The amazing story of a lady who built Batchelors Foods and cared for her workers and even tackled the thankless task of improving British Rail Catering @garius.bsky.social
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
#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 🗃️
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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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
#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 🗃️
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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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 15 May 1991, Edith Cresson is appointed Prime Minister of France. She is the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory 🗃️
A newspaper front page showing Edith Cresson walking up some steps on the day she was appointed. She is a white woman with blonde hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 15 May 1946, Camilla Williams makes her operatic debut as Cio-Cio San with the New York City Opera. She is the first Black woman to sign a contract with a major US opera company. More: carvehername.org.uk/... #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️
Camilla Williams as Cio-Cio San in Madame Butterfly, along with another singer. Both are dressed in kimonos.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 🗃️ 1/2
Vera Leigh in uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.” #OnThisDay, 14 May 1925, Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs Dalloway. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LiteraryWomen 🗃️ (Affiliate link: uk.bookshop.org/a/15...)
The cover of the first edition of Mrs Dalloway. It has a yellow and black illustration of some flowers on a window sill, and is by Woolf's sister, Vanessa BellVirginia Woolf. She is a white woman with dark hair and a brocade shawl over her shoulders
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Inge Lehmann was born on this day. Her theories about the earth's core changed the world. We reviewed a biography about her last year but haven't be able to pin down a date for paper. carvehername.org.uk/...
Inge Lehmann in 1932. She's a white woman with pale ahir, looking directly at the camera.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
Alison Hargreaves in the Himalayas. She's a white woman with blonde hair, in a heavy green coat. She's smiling.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 12 May 1743, Maria Theresa Habsburg is crowned Queen of Bohemia and consolidates her position as the ruler of the Austrian empire. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AustrianHistory #RegnantWomen 🗃️ 1/2
Maria Theresa Habsburg with her various crowns. She is a white woman with pale hair, dressed in silks and velvet.
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Lilian Bland Anglo-Irish #journalist press #photographer & pioneer #aviator. 1910/11 1 of 1st women in British Isles & possibly world to design, build & fly aircraft – Bland Mayfly, named ironically for doubts about its flight capability. d. #OTD 11 May 1971 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_...
Lilian Bland sat at a deskLilian Bland stood next to her Mayfly plane
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#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 🗃️
Margaret Brewer in her US Marine dress uniform. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
#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 🗃️
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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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History 🗃️ 1/2
Sojourner Truth in her older age. She is a Black woman wearing a white cap and shawl.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2
Police mugshots of Aili Jürgenson after her arrest. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children. At the time one of the city's two existing hospitals did not admit women as patients. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Marble statue of Dr Mary Harris Thompson. It's all white, because it's marble.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Our Mags on why she votes, highlighting how “women’s history” is also often personal history (and class history when it comes to working class women’s rights).
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
#OnThisDay, 7 May 1429, Jeanne d'Arc leads the French troops into the last day of fighting to lift the Siege of Orleans. Read more at carvehername.org.uk/... #WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc 🗃️
romanticized Victorian painting of Jeanne d'Arc in armour and holding a standard.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in Sept 1944. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 🗃️ 1/2
Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight after world war two, with a toddler on her back and a baby sat before her. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 04/05/2026
Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.
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ALSO, it's not just little old ladies sewed the first spacesuits," it's "the women from the Playtex Corp were the only ones who could sew within the tolerances needed." Yes, THAT Playtex Corp, the one who makes bras.
Bra-makers sent us to the moon.
And the cool thing with them was that they did it all WITHOUT PINS, WITHOUT SEAM RIPPING and in ONE TRY. You couldn't use pins or re-sew seams because the spacesuits had to be airtight, so any additional holes in them were NO GOOD. They were also sewing to some STUPID tight tolerances-in our costume shop if you're within an eighth of an inch of being on the line, you're usually good. The Playtex ladies were working on tolerances of 1/32nd of an inch. 1/32nd. AND IN 21 LAYERS OF FABRIC.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Apologies for the pause in posting over the UK bank holiday: testing a new process for scheduling and got distracted by the World snooker championships.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#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 🗃️
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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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
#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 🗃️ 1/2
photo of Phyllis Latour during the 1940s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#OnThisDay, 30 April 1937, 447,725 women in the Philippines vote to be given the vote in the women's suffrage plebiscite. Yes, the government did ask women to vote on whether they should have the vote… asiafoundation.org/2... #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️
cartoon showing president Quezon saying "I support the woman suffrage movement" and women holding banners saying "vote yes!".
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
#OnThisDay, 30 Apr 1920, the French women’s national football team played against Dick, Kerr Ladies in Preston, England in front of a crowd of 25,000. This could be footage of the match: youtu.be/gwzXon-HYys... #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Football 🗃️ 1/2
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Women Footballers (1920)
Preston, Lancashire? A team of young women come out of the dressing rooms on to the pitch, they wear stripy shirts and caps, one of them playfully kicks a ball. The terraces are packed, mainly with men. M/S of the opposing team, women in white shirts march onto the pitch - they seem more regime
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011. #WomenInHistory 🗃️ #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 1/2
Studio portrait of Nancy Wake in uniform, showing her parachute badge. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011. #WomenInHistory 🗃️ #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 1/2
Studio portrait of Nancy Wake in uniform, showing her parachute badge. She is a white woman with dark hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
"We are the result of many fights, we carry in our blood the inheritance of our grandmothers, our roots make demands of us and our daughters are rebelling." #OnThisDay, 29 April 2010, Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo is killed whilst taking provisions to besieged indigenous communities in Mexico.
Wall mural of Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo. She is a Mexican woman with dark hair, and the mural has colourful flowers in a banner behind her.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time. Newsreel: www.ina.fr/video/AFE... #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory 🗃️
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory 1/2
illustration of Anna ripping up the Conditions as part of her coronation.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#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. Watch: buff.ly/38djBcP #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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.
Betty Boothroyd on the election campaign trail in the 1970s. She is a white woman with fair hair.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'. She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
photo of  Edna Ferber looking over a balcony. She is a white woman in a cloche hat with a grim fur on her shoulders.
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
#OnThisDay, 26 Apr 1777, 16 year old Sybil Ludington is said to have ridden 40 miles to warn American colonial forces of a British attack. There's no contemporary evidence – see www.mitpressjournals... #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory
A rather dramatic painting of Sybil arriving on horseback, at night in the rain, to warn a shadowy figure in a window. She is a white woman with dark hair and on a very big horse.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"If only men wield weapons, then all tombs with weapons are male. If only men are ever found interred with weapons, then it’s unlikely women ever wielded them. We only imagine some version of what we’ve seen. It takes a lot of unlearning to learn history." Great guest post from @isabelleroughol.com
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We’ve been very wrong about Stone Age women
“Never assume” is a golden rule – especially when looking at 10,000-year-old human remains
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 2005, between 500K and 1.1m people take part in the March for Womens' Lives in Washington DC.
The mall in DC filled with people holding placards for equality. the front row of the march is holding a large banner reading "march for women's lives".
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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory 🗃️
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro wearing the Presidential sash and making V-for-victory signs. Daniel Ortega, a leader of the Sandinistas, is applauding her.
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