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Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️ We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends. https://carvehername.org.uk/ and https://linktr.ee/CarveHerName
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A couple of people on both social platforms have flagged we should have said Maria Skłodowska-Curie. We did pick this up back in December and say we'd do it in future. We set a reminder for the December post so we'd edit it. We forgot to set a reminder for this one. We've done that now.

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Mags is spending Easter reading old magazines.

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Feminist Surrealist Easter c/o - Leonora Carrington, Ab Eo Quod (1956). Leonor Fini, The Guardian of the Black Egg (1955). Kaye Sage, My Room Has Two Doors (1939). Ithell Colquhoun, Sardine and Eggs (c. 1941).

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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie 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

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P-p-p-pick up a Penguin 90 through our @bookshop_org_uk link over the Easter weekend (18 to 21 April) and you could win a £250 digital gift card!* We've a list of the 27 women in the Penguin 90: uk.bookshop.org/list... 1/2

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#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine 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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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“I expect this will be the making of me.” #OnThisDay, 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. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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Win a £250 Gift Card! Buy ANY book through our @bookshop_org_uk link over the Easter weekend (18 to 21 April) and you could win a £250 digital gift card! uk.bookshop.org/shop... If you buy books linked to our shop, we may earn a commission from Bookshop.org. UK only (sorry).

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Referred to as "that bloody woman" by Admiral John Fisher at the 1899 Hague Conference. Dissatisfied with proceedings, Suttner wrote off the Hague Convention as an instrument for making war #history 🗃️

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#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen 🗃️ 1/2

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Laura Annie Willson engineer & suffragette imprisoned twice for political activities. Started factory work age 10, trade unionist, President & founding member of Women's Eng Soc. Built 500+ houses 1st female member of Federation of House Builders. d. #OTD 17 Apr 1942 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_A...

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Tidied up the Trello boards so they are consistently named. And on that excellent bit of admin, we're heading into the long weekend here in the UK.

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It's a bank holiday here in the UK tomorrow. So we've published our kofi update a day early. This week it's about books: the Penguin 90 plus books we've received recently. ko-fi.com/post/Books... 1/2

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#OnThisDay, 17 Apr 1964, Jerrie Mock touches down in Ohio to become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Press coverage of the time made much of her being a “housewife”. 🙄 #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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The Penguin 90 editions start shipping today! 🐧 We've got a list of all 27 titles by women included in the series over on our UK bookshop. Affiliate link below.* uk.bookshop.org/list... 1/2

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‘Transgender’ people have been with us for over 100 years, and what we would recognise as trans identities are found in our archives - in the UK alone - reaching as far back as the medieval era. 1/

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You can read more about Quimby here: www.infinite-women.com/women/harrie...

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#OnThisDay, 16 April 1943, Special Operations Executive agent Odette Samsom is arrested by the Gestapo in France. The British SOE worked with the French resistance. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #WorldWar2 🗃️ 1/3

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#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel. Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s license and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. #WomenInHistory #History #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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All history is activism. It is in pursuit of being heard.

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#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the US. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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We've launched a new list on the UK bookshop org shop!* Mags went through the 90 titles in the new Penguin at 90 editions, and created a list of all the works by women authors. Pre-orders start shipping on 17 April. uk.bookshop.org/list... 1/2

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#OnThisDay, 14 April 2015, Sonia Harmand announces to the US Paleoanthropology Society meeting that she and her team have found human stone tools thought to be 3.3 million years old. Her paper is published in Nature the following month. #Archeology #Paleoanthropology

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Next week Penguin publish 90 classic books in special editions to celebrate 90 years since they were founded. 27 of them are by women. Take a look at the list we've created over on UK bookshop dot org, and pre-order your favourites today (if you're in the UK).* uk.bookshop.org/list... 1/2

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#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1985, Danuta Danielsson hits a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. Yes, that photo by Hans Runesson. Danuta had been born in Poland in 1947, after her Jewish mother had survived a concentration camp. #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1933 Ruth Bryan Owen is appointed US ambassador to Denmark. #AmericanHistory #ReclaimTheFrame #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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Next week Penguin publish 90 classic books in special editions to celebrate 90 years since they were founded. 27 of them are by women. Take a look at the list we've created over on UK bookshop dot org, and pre-order your favourites today (if you're in the UK).* uk.bookshop.org/list... 1/2

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