@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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4d ago
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 14 Jun 1991 500k women in Switzerland took part in a national women's strike demanding legal enforcement of gender equality which was incorporated into the constitution on 14 Jun 1981: in particular as it regarded the gender wage gap https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8588/swiss-women's-strike
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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5d ago
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 13 Jun 1919 200,000 attended in Berlin the funeral procession for martryed revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, who were murdered during the German Revolution by the proto-fascist Freikorps militia https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/rosa-luxemburg
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@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social
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6d ago
Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social
Journeys In Film is a non-profit organization dedicated to the use of film to promote a richer understanding of our diverse and complex world. We partner with social impact filmmakers to create free teaching resources for educators and impact materials for libraries and community organizations. Posts by Comms Director SJ.
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On this day in 1942, Anne Frank received her first diary for her 13th birthday. On the cover page, she wrote: 'I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support." When she went into hiding during the Holocaust, her diary was one of the first items she packed.
Journeys in Film offers free Holocaust Education resources based on award-winning films to support educators who are teaching "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl".
Learn more:
https://journeysinfilm.org/film/holocaust-education-lessons/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=OTD&utm_id=June+2026&utm_term=Anne+Frank&utm_content=comments+link
@histodons@fedigroups.social @bookstodon@fedigroups.social
#AnneFrank #DiaryOfAnneFrank #HolocaustEducation #Education #TeachingResources #Homeschooling #Bookstodon #OTD #Histodons #History
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@scotlit@mastodon.scot
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Jun 09, 2026
Assoc for Scottish Literature
@scotlit@mastodon.scot
ASL is an educational charity, promoting the reading, writing, teaching and study of Scotland's literature and languages, past and present.
mastodon.scot
“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview
#Scottish #literature #IainBanks #IainMBanks
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@thomas@mastodon.trueten.de
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May 08, 2026
Don Trueten 
@thomas@mastodon.trueten.de
"Those are my principles. If you don’t like them - I have others." Groucho Marx Born @ 318.43 ppm in HH/Germany work: Social hammock. (Retired) Ex. Metal Worker. Long-term Trade Unionist. politics: Antifa e.V. (platinum member). Fucking angry old #Anarchist. photography: Umbruch Bildarchiv, Berlin Donate: https://www.paypal.me/ThomasTrueten https://liberapay.com/Trueten/donate Financial Supporter of Mastodon: https://opencollective.com/don-trueten State of health: #Disabled / #NotJustSad / #PanicSyndrome #Meshtastic: Heart of DarkNess + Court Jester + Diabolus ex Machina
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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May 07, 2026
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 7 May 1945 Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally, leading to the end of WWII in Europe. But many fascists were reinstalled into positions of power without punishment. Especially in West Germany and Greece, as well as Bulgaria and Hungary https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10734/Nazi-Germany-surrendered
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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May 06, 2026
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10648/nazis-raid-sex-institute
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@historyofpunkrock@sfba.social
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May 04, 2026
Punkrock History
@historyofpunkrock@sfba.social
Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.
sfba.social
In memory of Adam Nathaniel Yauch, aka MCA 🖤
The American rapper, singer, songwriter, musician, and founding member of the hardcore punk/hip-hop group Beastie Boys passed away on May 4, 2012, in New York City.
#punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #MCA #beastieboys #punkrockhistory #otd
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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May 03, 2026
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 3 May 1968 the first street battles of the Paris uprising broke out in the Latin Quarter. 500 students were arrested at the Sorbonne. This is our collection of books and merch commemorating May 68: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/may-68
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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May 03, 2026
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 3 May 1986 Printworkers' March for Jobs led 15,000 on a march to Wapping, London, during the lockout at Rupert Murdoch's News International http://libcom.org/history/1986-1987-wapping-printers-strike
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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May 02, 2026
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 2 May 1982 a UK submarine fired on Argentina's Belgrano ship during the Falklands war, sinking it and killing 323 people. Widely considered a war crime, the UK claimed the ship had entered an exclusion zone, but leaked documents showed it hadn't https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7825/Sinking-of-the-Belgrano
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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May 01, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#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 #Histodons
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@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
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May 01, 2026
kcm
@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
Controversialist, catalyst and facilitator, quietly providing different ideas and views of the world. Born: London; early 1950s. Chemist; PhD in spectroscopy. Worked in IT for 35 years; retired as a senior project manager Founding Secretary, Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group. Other interests include: family history; photography; naturism; mysticism & comparative religion; science ... Aka @kcm
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Today on my blog, notes of a few things that happened in this month 100 years ago.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/may-1926/
#1926 #otd #May #blog #zenmischief
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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Apr 30, 2026
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
Husband, father, side project enthusiast: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects Big fan of the #fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse Enjoy my work? Here's how you can pay me back: https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ He/him. 🗺️ Bratislava ➜ NYC ➜ NJ
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CW: Nazis, Hitler, suicide
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Reminder that the bunker where Adolf Hitler took his own life 81 years ago is now a parking lot.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fuhrerbunker-parking-lot
#OnThisDay #OTD #nazis #history
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 30, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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Apr 29, 2026
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 29 Apr 1945 the body of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was dumped in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, where partisans were massacred by the Gestapo the previous year. His body was attacked by the crowd until it was hung up. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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Apr 28, 2026
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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#OtD 28 Apr 1826 weavers protesting for better wages and threatening to damage the new 'powerloom' factories are cleared from the streets by troops in Manchester, England, only a few days after widespread machine-breaking riots across East Lancashire https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9970/weavers-protests-suppressed
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 28, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#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.
She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.
Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.
*Old Style date
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 27, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#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 #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 25, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#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 #Histodons
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