#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 🗃️

#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 🗃️

#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 🗃️

#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/...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️

#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

“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...#OnThisDay,

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/...

#OnThisDay, 13 May 1995, Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen or sherpa guides. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

#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

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_...

#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 🗃️

#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 🗃️

“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

#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

#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 🗃️

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).

#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/...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #FrenchHistory #HundredYearsWar #JoanOfArc 🗃️

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

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.

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.

#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 🗃️

#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

#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...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️

#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...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Football 🗃️ 1/2

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

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

"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.

#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time. Newsreel: www.ina.fr/video/AFE...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory 🗃️

#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

#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: https://buff.ly/38djBcP#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️

#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 🗃️

#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...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

"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

#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 2005, between 500K and 1.1m people take part in the March for Womens' Lives in Washington DC.

#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 🗃️

"Fear is just a line in your head. You can choose what side of the line you want to be on." #OnThisDay, 24 April 2015, Sabeen Mehmud, a human rights activist, is killed in a targeted drive-by shooting in Pakistan.

How Tudor propaganda was constructed, what really made the 'Glorious Revolution' less than bloodless, and why both British and Indian historians told the story of 1857 wrong. We'll come onto the question that reframes every history source you'll encounter👇 lucyworsley.substack.com/p/the-lies-w...

#OnThisDay, 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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

#OnThisDay, 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: carvehername.org.uk/...#OnThisDay, #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #WomensHistory 🗃️

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

A blue plaque has been unveiled for astronomer, Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin at her teenage home, 70 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill, London. Her thesis from 1925 proposed that stars are composed primarily from hydrogen & helium. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#OnThisDay, 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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory 🗃️

#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote. #WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen

Rummaging around for more details about something later this month, and found this silent newsreel from 1921 on the BFI's YouTube. "Football: quite unfit for females" youtu.be/Ecp6T8mZSCY

#OnThisDay, 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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen 🗃️ 1/2

Right! Household disruption over! Let's get back up into posting women from history.

#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/mary-e..., inc. a podcast episode about women in the US Civil War. She's also in my book Uncredited, because they tried to take her medal away (she refused to give it back and wore it until she died): www.infinite-women.com/uncredited/

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1974, Pauline McGibbon is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada. She was the first woman to hold the role. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #CanadianHistory 🗃️

"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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2