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"The surprising part isn’t really that women occupied all these various roles and positions, but that we continue treating them as exceptions to the rule, even as new archaeological methods challenge that idea over and over again." Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be Even when historical records already suggested they’d be there Excellent post by Katie Jagielnicka https://thenoosphere.substack.com/p/archaeologists-keep-finding-women #Archaeology #WomenInHistory

The world’s first influencers were French and they emerged after the Revolution by Emma Schwak Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit. https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-first-influencers-were-french-and-they-emerged-after-the-revolution-286859?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Diversity%20in%20the%20World%20Cup%20-%203867739403&utm_content=Diversity%20in%20the%20World%20Cup%20-%203867739403+CID_8f3fa84c054f2dc99e8f6f99d1012e1e&utm_source=campaign_monitor_europe&utm_term=The%20worlds%20first%20influencers%20were%20French%20and%20they%20emerged%20after%20the%20Revolution Books about Madame Récamier at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Madame+R%C3%A9camier #books #literature #WomenInHistory

#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 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. 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

#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

#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

#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

#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 #Histodons

#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. The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined. "I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression." #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BlackHistoryMonth #Histodons

#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. In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons 1/2

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars. Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 15 Nov 1982, at least 11 women* from the Greenham Common Peace Camp in the UK are sent to prison. They had refused to be bound over to keep the peace after occupying a sentry box on the US base. *some sources say 23, others 11. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #ColdWarHistory #Histodons 1/2