Not only was neuroscientist May Britt-Moser born 63 years ago today, but psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz, whose work centered around the analysis of fairy tales, was born 111 years ago today. And they are both in our History of Women in Psychology! #BookSky #WomenInSTEM #PsychSky 🧠🧪

Anna Boberg(1864-1935), Swedish artist who spent much time painting in Northern Norway, where she had a cabin and lived alone #WomensArt

A #goodnews story for #women everywhere @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @womenemployed.bsky.social #education @susannahwalker.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Astronomer Helen Dodson Prince was born 120 years ago today. For decades, she carried out solar flare research, except during World War II when she volunteered her services in radar research. She published some 130 articles and won the Annie Jump Cannon Award. #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky 🧪🔭

Remembering Pamela Brown, writer, actor and television producer, #BOTD in 1924. Best known for her Blue Door series of books, in particular The Swish of the Curtain, beloved of Maggie Smith, Victoria Wood and others @womenwriters.bsky.social @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social @pushkinpress.com

Congratulations to to Lucy McCarraher, founder of the Business Book Awards & the women writers' network A Book of One's Own, on her #MBE, for services to #publishing and #diversity. Has worked tirelessly to enable women to claim their space @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womeninbusiness.bsky.social

Dames congratulate Dame Meera Syal: actress, comedian and writer, on her elevation to damehood for services to literature, drama, charity @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenintheatrelab.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social @bafta.org @womeninfilmseattle.bsky.social

Grannies know how to cook, and what to cook with: organic food.

An inspiring post Christmas read: time to cook! @carolemason.bsky.social @wisarchive.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Yesterday was algebraic geometer Shihoko Ishii's 75th birthday! An expert in singularity theory, her 2016 Introduction to Singularities is the place to go to start your adventure in this exciting realm of mathematics! #WomenInSTEM #MathSky 🧪🧮

National Portrait Gallery buy rare photograph of Ada Lovelace. 👇 www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/nat...

Women's rights advocate Lucy Burns died #OTD in 1966. Burns founded the National Women’s Party with Alice Paul. An activist in the US & UK, she joined the militant suffragettes. She played a key role advocating for the 19th Amendment that granted American women the right to vote. #history #suffrage

The climate crisis is accelerating - 2025 looks set to become UK’s hottest year on record. Good to see focus on importance of resilience on #r4today- pls take a moment to sign petition calling on Govt to introduce a fully funded national climate adaptation plan petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 1905, over 22,000 people join demonstrations across Finland to demand #VotesForWomen. The vote was won in 1906. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FinnishHistory 🗃️

#OTD in 1999, the #UN General Assembly designated 25 November as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. Just one example: years 898 female victims of domestic homicide in UK over the past 10 years. Still a long way to go... @unwomen.bsky.social @whiteribbonuk.bsky.social

#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 2009, Sahrawi activist Aminatou Ali Ahmed Haidar ended her hunger strike and returned to the Western Sahara. Haider campaigns for Morocco to stop administering the Western Sahara. 1/4

'Rage propelled me along to the end.' Birthday greetings to US #photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood, renowned for her ten-year project, published as Too Much Time, photographing women in prison in Europe and the US @womeninphotography.bsky.social @worldpressphoto.bsky.social @wph-herstory.bsky.social

'When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people' - novelist and poet Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) also enthralled and delighted them: good to see a statue of her unveiled today in Dorchester @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenwriters.bsky.social @womenwritebloom.bsky.social

#OnThisDay, 12 Dec 2015, women voted for the first time in Saudi Arabian elections. Around 17 women were elected to municipal councils.

In my role as Co-Chair of the UK-EU PPA, I have long supported a youth experience scheme. The @uktradebusiness.bsky.social proposes a practical way forward, giving young people more opportunities to gain new skills, experience new cultures & thrive. www.bestforbritain.org/launch_yes_w...

Birthday greetings to the incomparable Dame Judi Dench! One of Britain's greatest actresses, a career over 7 decades noted for versatile roles on stage and screen, won multiple awards @nationaltheatre.org.uk @womeninfilms.bsky.social @womenintheatrelab.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social

Congratulations- well-deserved! (We're feeling happy we've gently passed the 100 mark, bearing in mind the 1000 followers we left behind on X...)

Remembering singer/songwriter Sinéad O’Connor #BOTD 1966. Dubbed 1st superstar of the 1990s by Rolling Stone magazine. Won the Grammy for best alternative music performance in 1991 for I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got @womenwarriors.com @carolemason.bsky.social @futureofmusic.bsky.social

“To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.” #OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1954, Simone de Beauvoir wins the Prix Goncourt with her novel ‘The Mandarins’. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #FrenchHistory 🗃️ 1/3

Remembering Indian freedom fighter and social activist Ramadevi Choudhury, #BOTD in 1899. Met Gandhi in 1921, following which she & her husband joined Non Cooperation Movement. Campaigned for abolition of untouchable status and, post independence, for land reform #womeninhistory @womenwarriors.com

ICYMI we published a new blog post last week, about women, piracy and privateering.

#OnThisDay, 2 Dec 1954, Winifred Atwell becomes the first Black person to top the British singles chart, with “Let's Have Another Party”. Originally from Trinidad, she moved to London to take up a place at the Royal Academy of Music. #WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/3

“Self Portrait” by Mary Adshead (British) - Oil on canvas / 1931 - Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museums (Sheffield, England) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #MaryAdshead #Adshead #SheffieldMuseums #GravesGallery #selfportrait #WomanArtist #WomensArt #WomenArtists #BritishArtist #BlueskyArt #1930sArt

'Paid up all the debts…thank the Lord!' Author Louisa May Alcott #BOTD 1832 on the success of 'Little Women'. Wrote other domestic narratives, also gothic tales and thrillers @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenwriters.bsky.social @womenwritebloom.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1893, over 90,000 women in Aotearoa New Zealand voted in parliamentary elections for the first time. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️

No words can express our respect and admiration for these women @womenwarriors.com @valeriavescina.bsky.social @meanwhileua.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @pravda.ua @theukrainianreview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt

Today’s the feast day of St Cecilia patron saint of music.. here self portrait as St Cecilia by Artemisia Gentileschi Spada gallery Rome.

B1873 Victoria Lawrence in Leeds, by 1890s living in Osborne Terrace, Clapham Road (not sure about the lodger). She was extremely famous in UK & US and the song ‘Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow’ written for her.*

Wonderful to see out in the world your book about these forgotten women's voices, @drnaomibaker.bsky.social! #booksky #earlymodern #womenshistory

'Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life' - remembering Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, South African writer and anti-apartheid activist @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @nobelprize.org @thebookerprizes.com

Powerful article from Beth Mead on how the #climate crisis is already threatening the future of sport & the importance of investing in adaptation. If you agree please do sign & share the petition urging Ministers to act petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... @climatemajority.bsky.social

#OnThisDay, 20 Nov 1908, suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett became the first woman to speak at the Oxford Union debating society since its formation in 1823. #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Dame Elisabeth Frink #BOTD 1930, sculptor and printmaker. part of a postwar group of British sculptors. One of 5 'Women of Achievement' selected for a set of stamps issued August 1996 @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @royalacademy.bsky.social @womenart.bsky.social

Read damesnet's blog on what women in Mexico face: damesnet.com?p=11215 @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @carolemason.bsky.social @emrazz.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Why is there never any mention of windfall taxes on arms companies? They must be coining it... @taxjustice.net #budget #Rachelreeves @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social

#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers opens in Leipzig. Appalled at cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the pit to prevent further performances. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Martha Gellhorn #BOTD 1908: US novelist, travel writer, journalist, one of the great war correspondents of the 20th C. Reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenjournos.bsky.social @womenwriters.bsky.social

Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy. tinyurl.com/2j9hxmjb #WomenInSTEM

It’s inexplicable that British departments of State & politicians use Musks X.. he’s calling for insurrection & civil war in the UK #wato

'I can't afford the luxury of despair or pessimism. We still have to hope. We're a timeless people...' Remembering poet, artist and political activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal, #BOTD in 1920, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of poetry @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk

Cypress Garden's water skiing troupe, 1955, Florida, US #WomensArt #Halloween #FridayFeeling !

Mrs Margaret Graham, the first female pilot to make a solo balloon ascent

Respect and more to the #women of Ukraine. Their strength and resilience is formidable @carolemason.bsky.social #RussiansoutofUkraine @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com. @pravda.ua @meanwhileua.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...