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John W. Doull, Bookseller<p>From Saltscapes Magazine (no paywall)</p><p>'Jo Napier always thought writing was her thing until she picked up a paintbrush ...'</p><p>I enjoyed this, including the shout-out to librarians 🤩 and the laugh I had near the end. </p><p>(If any of you have ever read 'Cheaper By The Dozen' by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. &amp; Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, you'll appreciate the reference &amp; wonder if that's where Jo's dad got the idea. 😄 )</p><p><a href="https://www.saltscapes.com/roots-folks/3746-brushstrokes-of-power.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">saltscapes.com/roots-folks/374</span><span class="invisible">6-brushstrokes-of-power.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/NovaScotia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NovaScotia</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Painting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Painting</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/JoNapier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoNapier</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Saltscapes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Saltscapes</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 26 July 1969, Sharon Sites Adams becomes the first woman known to have sailed the Pacific single-handed.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a><br />1/2</p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 26 July 1913, around 50,000 people - mostly women - rally in Hyde Park, London as part of campaigning for votes for women in Britain.</p><p>Some of the marchers had set out from Cornwall or Scotland six weeks earlier. Many of them had faced abuse and assault along the way.</p><p><a href="https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-1913-suffrage-pilgrimage-peaceful-protest-and-local-disorder/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/t</span><span class="invisible">he-1913-suffrage-pilgrimage-peaceful-protest-and-local-disorder/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VotesForWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VotesForWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 25 July 1984, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk (and weld) in space. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 24 July 1983, women from the Greenham Peace Camp hold a ‘die-in’ in front of politicians, public and military hardware buyers at the International Air Tattoo at the base. They pretend to be dead.</p><p>Photo illustrates some Greenham women holding a die-in elsewhere in England, and is taken from Alison Dowell’s archive at Greenham Women Everywhere:<br /><a href="https://greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/portfolio-items/alison-dowells-archive/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/</span><span class="invisible">portfolio-items/alison-dowells-archive/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 23 July 1999, Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to command a Space Shuttle. She went on to command Discovery on the first test flight of a Shuttle after the Columbia disaster.</p><p>Watch the lift-off: <a href="https://youtu.be/AfqIzfH7r2Y" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/AfqIzfH7r2Y</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSpace</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpaceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpaceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 22 July 1952 (or just after) Prof. Virginia Apgar presents her new way of testing the health of newborn babies to a professional congress.</p><p>Apgar’s name is used as a mnemonic for the tests, which assess activity (tone), pulse, grimace, appearance, and respiration. This is a backcronym, where someone has picked words that will create an acronym that is also a specific name.</p><p>The Apgar test has saved countless newborn lives.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 22 July 1939, Jane Bolin becomes the first African-American woman to be appointed as a judge in the USA. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 21 July 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the Sri Lankan Prime Minister. She is the first woman in the world to be made a Prime Minister.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 18 July 1976, Romanian Nadia Comăneci becomes the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. She broke the scoreboards as they only went to 9.99.</p><p>In 1989, having lived under tight surveillance and control since she was a child, she defected to the USA by walking through the night from Romania to Hungary.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OlympicWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OlympicWomen</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 17 July 1979, Simone Veil became the first President of the European Parliament, and the first woman to preside over any EU institution.</p><p>As Health Minister in France, Veil had passed laws enabling access to contraception and legalising abortion.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EuropeanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 17 July 1972, Susan Roley and Joanne Pierce become the first women to be appointed FBI special agents since the 1920s.</p><p>J Edgar Hoover had dismissed any women working as special agents when he took over the FBI, and the ban had remained in place until his death.</p><p>Watch an interview here: <br /><a href="https://youtu.be/N_2yu0sVicw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/N_2yu0sVicw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 17 July 1959 paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers a fossilized skull from a previously unknown species of hominid - Zinjanthropus boisei. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anthropology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Claire Ridgway<p>Was Lady Jane Grey’s mother really a monster?<br>Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, has been vilified for centuries—but does she deserve it?<br>Uncover the truth...<br> <a href="https://bit.ly/40opuMx" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/40opuMx</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/TudorHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TudorHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/FrancesGrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrancesGrey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LadyJaneGrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LadyJaneGrey</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HiddenHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HiddenHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TudorTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TudorTok</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 15 July 1970, Denmark beat Italy 2-0 in the unofficial women&#39;s football world cup. 40,000 people attend the match.</p><p>FIFA took another 21 years to found the official women&#39;s world cup in 1991.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThisGirlCan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThisGirlCan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 14 July 1885, Sarah E Goode receives the US patent for her cabinet bed. She is among the first African-American women to gain a patent in her own name.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 13 Jul 1793, Charlotte Corday assassinates Jean-Paul Marat. She hopes to change the course of the French Revolutionary Republic for the better.</p><p>She doesn&#39;t.</p><p>The painting was done in the hours before her execution by guillotine on 17 July.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FrenchHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FrenchHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>&quot;If they don&#39;t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 12 July 1972, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first Black US Presidential candidate, winning 152 votes in the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 11 July 1871, Margaret E Knight wins a patent lawsuit and is awarded the patent for flat-bottomed paper bag making machines.</p><p>No reliable image, so here&#39;s a bag in use.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 11 July 1656, Ann Austin and Mary Fisher arrive in Boston Massachusetts. They are the first Quakers to reach the colony. </p><p>They are seized, treated as witches, and their books burnt. </p><p>No reliable images.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>