#womeninhistory is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 28 people shared 53 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is up 10% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 7 with 8 posts.

Posts with #womeninhistory

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5 months ago

#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

photo of Phyllis Latour during the 1940s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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8 months ago

#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️ 1/3

Ida B Wells in the 1920s. She is a Black woman with greying hair.

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8 months ago

#OnThisDay, 23 Jan 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell graduates with a medical degree. She is the first woman to receive one in the USA. She was also the first woman on the UK medical register. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInMedicine #AmericanHistory 🗃️

Elizabeth Blackwell as a young woman. She is white, with dark hair in a bun.

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5 months ago

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

Studio portrait of Nancy Wake in uniform, showing her parachute badge. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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4 months ago

#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, #AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

A visiting card by F W Mason with a photo of Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia. She is a Māori woman in a dark fitted jacket with a pale bow at her neck. Her hair is in a plaited bun.

Image credit: Mason, Frederick W., photographer. [Copy of Portrait of Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia]. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira. PH-NEG-C5101.

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8 months ago

#OnThisDay, 24 Jan 1901, British aid-worker Emily Hobhouse first visits Bloemfontein concentration camp in South Africa. Her reporting on the conditions Boers are being held in by the British government causes uproar. A short 🧵 #WomenInHistory #BritishHistory #History 🗃️ 1/6

Studio portrait of Emily Hobhouse. She is a white woman in a cloak and a big hat.

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Hiddenherstory

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9 months ago

Nellie Bly A pioneering journalist who went undercover to expose abuse in a mental asylum. Going as far as having a Dr. declare her insane & committed to Blackwell’s Island, exposing abuse inside it. Her reporting forced reforms & changed journalism. #WomenInHistory #MAHistory tinyurl.com/24by4nn3

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7 months ago

#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory 🗃️ 1/2

studio photo of Doria Shafik. She is an Egyptian woman with dark hair.

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5 months ago

#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

Police mugshots of Aili Jürgenson after her arrest. She is a white woman with dark hair.

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5 months ago

#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

posed photograph of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

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9 months ago

#OnThisDay, 8 Jan 1816, mathematician Sophie Germain wins the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her paper on elasticity theory. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

An engraved drawing of Sophie Germain. She is a white woman with loose dark hair.

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6 months ago

"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