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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 14 Oct 1586, Mary Queen of Scots finally consents to be tried for plotting the assassination of her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England. Mary faces a council of 36 noblemen whilst denied any legal counsel. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

a drawing of Mary Queen of Scots being led to her trial, and the 36 men who sat in judgement.

#OnThisDay, 14 Oct 1586, Mary Queen of Scots finally consents to be tried for plotting the assassination of her cousin Elizabeth, Queen of England.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 19h

Murray went on to found Endell Street Military Hospital in London, staffed entirely by women. One of the most successful military hospitals of the war. Its motto was: "Deeds, not Words." When the war ended, she ordered the suffragette flag raised, to the sound of cheers from the male patients.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 13 Oct 1978, around 5,000 women march through Dublin protesting against rape and all forms of sexual assault. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory 🗃️

Partial scan of a photo of the march in the "news shorts" section of Spare Rib. The report outlines the march took place and what it was calling for.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 12 Oct 1956, Marga Klompé is appointed Minister of Social Work. She is the first woman to be a cabinet Minister in the Netherlands government #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NLHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Marga Klompé sitting with the rest of the Dutch cabinet - all white and male - as they pose for photos.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 11 Oct 1922, Alaska P Davidson becomes the first woman to be an FBI Special Agent. She was employed to focus on the trafficking of women across state lines. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

photo of Alaska P Davidson. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 10 Oct 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst and others form the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Manchester, UK. Eventually known as the suffragettes, they fought for women to have the vote. [photo c 1906] #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory 🗃️

staged photo of the WSPU holding a meeting at a dining table. They are all white women.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

"Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right." #OnThisDay, 9 Oct 2012, Malala Yousafzai survives an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She continues to campaign for education for girls and women.

A teenage Malala speaking before the attempt on her life.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 07/10/2026

According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.

Margaret Hamilton, but the famous 1969 photo that inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison is in the quoted post.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 8 Oct 1952, USAF 2nd Lt Nurse Abbie Sweetwine uses military triage at the Harrow and Wealdstone train crash in London. She saves lives and paves the way for the UK’s use of paramedics. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Abbie Sweetwine preparing a plasma infusion at the site of the crash. She is a black woman, surrounded by white men.

A photo of the Harrow and Wealdstone crash, showing three passenger trains that had run into each other. There is debris two storeys high, and people searching the wreckage.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 5 Oct 1789, thousands of women instigate and lead the March on Versailles. They - along with revolutionaries who join them - besiege the Palace to demand cheap bread. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #RevolutionaryWomen 🗃️ 1/2

contemporary illustration of the march, with women pulling a cannon and carrying pikes.

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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured). #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

A woman is being frogmarched along cobbles by two policemen, with another apparently gesturing to her to calm down.

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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

There’s some wonderful images of her - and the impact of that surprise landing in Derry - here: joecampbellart.com/2... Watch newsreel of her taking off here: www.youtube.com/watc... 2/2

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Amelia Earhart in Ireland: Solo Atlantic Crossing, May 21st 1932

May 21, 1932, Amelia Earhart created aviation history as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Landing just outside Derry in Ballyarnett.

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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

In the 1940s, Hellman had been twice nominated for an Academy Award for her screenplays. As a result of refusing to testify about others to HUAC, Hellman was blacklisted by Hollywood. 2/2

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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

In her speech Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia called for Māori women to have the vote and to be members of the parliament. 2/2

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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

The public holiday was introduced in 1963 to celebrate the centenary of Rosalia de Castro's work. 2/2

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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

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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

The SOE supported the French Resistance. After her return in '43, 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. 2/2

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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 Bell

Virginia 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

The Seven Year War was promoted by rival claims to the empire, and Maria worked to elevate her husband to be Holy Roman Emperor. After his death she co-ruled with her son. She sponsored trials of smallpox inoculation, having lost three of her children to the disease. 2/2

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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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Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Yeah. We sometimes get a bit of flak for featuring women in the military because of <waves hand>everything. But the stubbornness to say "I am going to do this thing, despite all the obstacles" is interesting.

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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 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

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: wams.nyhistory.org/a... And there's an episode of Greg Jenner (Historian)'s You're Dead To Me about her here: www.bbc.co.uk/progra... 2/2

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Sojourner Truth - Women & the American Story

This is the story of Sojourner Truth, an enslaved woman who became one of the most important social justice activists in American history.

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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

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. 2/2

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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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