Saluting the magnificent 6 women prize winners of this key prize @admirablewomen.bsky.social
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Remembring Cecilia Glaisher #BOTD 1828: photographer, artist, illustrator, print-maker, working in the 1850s world of Victorian science and natural history @admirablewomen.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womeninphotography.bsky.social @womenart.bsky.social @womeninstem.bsky.social
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustrations, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt
Oh happy day! #democracy @carolemason.bsky.social @emwandsworthmerton.bsky.social @saloneurope.bsky.social
'Liberty is the equal right and heritage of every child of man, without distinction of race, colour or sex': Emily Hobhouse #BOTD 1860, humanitarian, pacifist, defied the British Empire to expose horrors of concentration camps during Anglo-Boer War @womenwarriors.com @admirablewomen.bsky.social
New York Married Women’s Property Act of 1848
4/7/1848 — New York state passes the 'Married Women’s Property Act of 1848.' Previously, a woman lost the right to control property which was hers before marriage + other #womensrights. The first comprehensive U.S. property #law. www.womenshistory.org/resources/pr... #womenshistory #PolSky #LawSky
line drawing illustration of Empress Matilda.
#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.
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#EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK 🗃️
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Four images one of a white woman sitting knitting with huge needles, two images of a dark lace like fence in a garden and another image of the artist standing by the fence.
Anne Eunson knitted a fence with twine based on a Shetland lace pattern, installed at the Shetland Textile Museum, Lerwick #womensart
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Celebrating the birthday of Wangari Maathai #BOTD 1940: Kenyan politician, environmental activist awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace - 1st Black African woman to win a Nobel Prize @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @womeninpoliticsss.bsky.social
Neurologist Nathalie Zylberlast-Zand was born 143 years ago today. She was one of the key early figures in Polish neurology, working alongside Edward Flatau, publishing some 100 works on meningitis and myeloid leukemia before dying in a Nazi concentration camp in 1942.
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'One of the top five most influential people in the networking industry today'. Happy birthday Jayshree Ullal: engineer, President and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company @womenintech.bsky.social @womeninlogic.bsky.social @womenintechseo.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social
The indomitable Bertha van Hoosen was born 163 years ago today. A skilled surgeon and medical lecturer of worldwide fame, she was also a founder of the American Medical Women's Association, and an advocate for the refinement of reduced pain birth.
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Saluting and mourning the passing of the great dame of radio: Dame Jenni Murray @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social @feministory.bsky.social @womeninradio.bsky.social
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Libby Riddles receiving her winner’s laurels. She is a white woman in a thick ski coat. She’s holding two of the sled dogs.
#OnThisDay, 20 Mar 1985, Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the 1,100-mile trans-Alaska #Iditarod dog sled race.
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Physicist Xie Xide, China's "Queen of Semiconductors", was born 105 years ago today. She survived tuberculosis, heart disease, breast cancer, and hard labor during the Cultural Revolution to become president of Fudan University.
#WomenInSTEM #WHM #PhysicsSky 🧪
Black and white photo of Kate Greenaway at 21
Illustrated cover of Kate Greenaway's book of verse Marigold Garden
Saluting writer/artist Kate Greenaway, #BOTD 1846. Though frustrated by the art training available to women, forged a stellar career illustrating greetings cards & children's books. A medal in her name is awarded for children's book #illustration @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensart.bsky.social
1st woman to chair General Council of the TUC, 1st female cabinet minister, 1st woman privy counsellor in the UK, when appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1921: Marget Bondfield #BOTD1873 @womeninpoliticsss.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @feministory.bsky.social
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Jane Elizabeth Jones
3/13/1813 — b. Jane Elizabeth Jones, American abolitionist, suffragist, author, orator. Co-editor, "Anti-Slavery Bugle" (1845-49); wrote "The Young Abolitionists" (1848) for children. Speaker at the national #womensrights conventions (1852, 1856 & 1860) #WomensHistoryMonth #WriterSky #PolSky #KidLit
Legendary Indian oncologist V. Shanta was born 99 years ago today. She served at the Adyar Cancer Institute since the year after its 1954 opening, taking up the directorship from 1990 to 1997, dedicating herself and the institute to providing free cancer for the poor.
#WomenInSTEM #WHM #MedSky ⚕️
studio photo of Lorraine Hansberry. She is a Black woman with short hair.
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.
#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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Black and white photo of Peggy Lee at the piano
'I... learned how to reach and hold my audience—softly, with feeling.' #OTD in 1970 actor/singer/songwriter Peggy Lee won a Grammy for her song 'Is That All There is?' Wrote or co-wrote more than 270 songs & had a cocktail named after her: the margarita @singersongwriter.bsky.social #jazz #Grammys
This #womenshistorymonth marks 246 years since my 7X great-grandmother jumped into an icy river under fire to save her family on the Tennessee frontier. History forgot her, I wrote her into my debut novel. Read more at tinyurl.com/DiannahJenni....
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Remember Claire Boothe Luce: writer, politician, diplomat #BOTD 1903. Her 1936 hit play The Women had an all-female cast. Served in House of Representatives 1943- 1947, 1st woman appointed as U.S. ambassador to a major country
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colour photo of Umoja women
Just in case you feel like an uplifting read on #InternationationalWomensDay: Umoja, the all-female matriarch village in #Kenya founded as a sanctuary for survivors of domestic abuse and girls fleeing forced marriage and FGM @admirablewomen.bsky.social
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LB Southwark installed a blue plaque to honour Una Marson at her former home in Brunswick Square, Camberwell in 2009 and a new library in Walworth was named after her in 2024
Happy birthday to Dame Ottoline Leyser: plant biologist, leader in science policy and engagement. CEO of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Regius Professor of Botany at University of Cambridge @womeninstem.bsky.social @wisarchive.bsky.social @admirablewomen.bsky.social @carvehername.bsky.social
