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CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 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 <a href="https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00452" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00452</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a>

History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage📷 Souvenir Photo of an Ottoman Woman and Her Children, Istanbul, 1910s <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23History" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23FamilyHistory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FamilyHistory</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WomenInHistory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 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. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CentralAmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CentralAmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

Eva Gómez1916 nace Hind al-Husseini fue una educadora palestina famosa por rescatar a 55 niños huérfanos que había sobrevivido a la masacre de Deir Yassin y que habían sido llevados a Jerusalén y abandonados a su suerte. Husseini también se dedicó a reivindicar el papel de la mujer, estableció una universidad para mujeres Universidad Hind al-Husseini y sirvió en el Sindicato Árabe de Mujeres. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MujeresEnLaHistoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MujeresEnLaHistoria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a>

Stephan Glienke24.4.1897 Hannah Karminski geboren. Im Jüdischen Frauenbund setzt sich die Sozialpädagogin u. Vertraute v. Berta Pappenheim für Selbstbestimmung und Berufstätigkeit der Frauen ein. Wird im Dezember 1942 nach <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Auschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Auschwitz</a> deportiert, am 4.6.1943 ermordet.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kalenderblatt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kalenderblatt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WomeninHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomeninHistory</a>

CarveHerNameOver on the blog we talk about how there is no known photo of Charlotte E Ray, but that doesn't stop people using photos of other, real Black women from history and claiming they are Ray. We've used illustrations instead.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a><a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/</a> 1/6

Helen PughOn this day in 871, Alfred the Great became King of Wessex with his wife, Elswitha, by his side. They would undergo many upheavals, the lowest point being their wandering through the Somerset Levels when she was in her mid- to late twenties.For more, check out Unsung Women in Somerset. Pictured is the golden wyvern, associated with the House of Wessex. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wessex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wessex</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/23april" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#23april</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/onthisday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onthisday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Somerset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Somerset</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/historicalwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historicalwomen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/womeninhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/today" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#today</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.Read more: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.Read more: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

Jane Stitches<a href="https://zirk.us/@SmithsonianRoulette" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SmithsonianRoulette</a> "Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Cushman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Cushman</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/womeninhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womeninhistory</a>

Eva Gómez1830 nace Clémence Royer, fue una filósofa, científica, traductora y economista francesa. Figura del feminismo y del pensamiento libre a finales de siglo XIX. Se le debe a Clémence la traducción en francés de El Origen de las especies de Charles Darwin en 1862. En 1862 publica bajo el título Théorie de l'impôt ou la dîme social, libro donde incluye un debate sobre el rol económico de las mujeres en sociedad y su obligación de tener hijos. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MujeresEnLaHistoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MujeresEnLaHistoria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VotesForWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VotesForWomen</a>

Eva Gómez1891 nace Caresse Crosby fue una escritora, editora, activista, diseñadora de moda e inventora estadounidense. Es conocida sobre todo por haber inventado el sujetador (1913). Crosby fundó junto a su marido en París la editorial Black Sun Press. Fundó la organización pacifista Women against War (Mujeres contra la guerra). Parte de su trabajo para el grupo  fue su intento de establecer una Ley de Paz de 1950. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MujeresEnLaHistoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MujeresEnLaHistoria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInSTEM</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NobelWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NobelWomen</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

Roni LaukkarinenHere's an even longer interview with Kathrine Switzer. I'm completely spellbound by her.This story stirs up so many emotions. Why did it have to be that way for so long? And why are we still taking steps backward? What's wrong with people?<a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 19 Apr 1967.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOaLdRnfmhE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOaLdRnfmhE</a><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WomensRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRight</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensRights</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/Equality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Equality</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 19 Apr 1967, Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

CarveHerName“I expect this will be the making of me.”<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and starts a ten day jail sentence. She's released two days early for good behaviour.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiteraryWomen</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

Eva Gómez1870 nace Vera Gedroitz fue una princesa ruso-lituana, doctora en medicina, catedrática y la primera mujer cirujana de Rusia. Fue también una de las primeras mujeres docentes cirujanas en el mundo. Además fue escritora de prosa y poeta. Su trabajo en laparotomía durante la Guerra ruso-japonesa estuvo entre los primeros que consiguieron altas cotas de éxito. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MujeresEnLaHistoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MujeresEnLaHistoria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a>

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