#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.
Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.
#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1913, suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and announces she will go on hunger strike.
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1991, Rita Johnson becomes the first female premier of a Canadian province when she is elected by the political caucus.
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
You can now pre-order the ebook of:
On This Day in Somerset (A Calendar of Women)
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#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.
#OnThisDay, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament.
Her demands?
The right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions.
The education of girls to be based on the same principles as those of boys.
That women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced.
Her demands were refused.
To end #WomensHistoryMonth 2025, I have written a blog post about why Alice Thornton (1626-1707) wrote (at least) four accounts of her life.
https://www.gender.ed.ac.uk/blog/2025/3-funerals-and-wedding-seventeenth-century-womans-reasons-writing-0
@litstudies @histodons @earlymodern @histodon #EarlyModern #WomenInHistory
#OTD Heute 1872 in Sankt Petersburg geboren: Alexandra #Kollontai, deren Forderung nach Gleichberechtigung, freier Liebe und kollektivem Zusammenleben bürgerliche Vorstellungen noch heute weit hinter sich lässt. Sie war überzeugt, eine Revolution könne nur erfolgreich sein, wenn sie das gesamte Leben revolutioniert. Lernt die erste Ministerin der Welt kennen: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/alexandra-kollontai-oder-revolution-fuer-das-leben
1895 nace Silvia Zenari fue una botánica, geóloga, profesora, taxónoma, conservadora y exploradora italiana.
Estudió historia natural en la Universidad de Padua, graduándose con una licenciatura en 1918.
Fue la primera investigadora, en completar un estudio sobre la ecología vegetal en alturas elevadas. En 1948, obtuvo el reconocimiento de la Accademia dei Lincei con el premio de Ciencias Naturales.
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.
#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.
When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.
Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.
This month on Her Letters to August Derleth we look at his correspondent Christine Campbell Thomson, the British editor and literary agent behind the Not at Night series.
https://deepcuts.blog/2025/03/29/her-letters-to-august-derleth-christine-campbell-thomson/
#OnThisDay, 29 Mar 1993, Catherine Callbeck is elected as the premier of Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the general election. She is the first woman to be elected by the public to a premiership in Canada.
Other women had previously held premierships through party leadership elections.
On This Day, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region. #WomenInHistory
#OnThisDay, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/yaa-asantewaa/
Solitude: The Fearless Warrior Who Tackled Napoleon’s Army While Pregnant https://shinemycrown.com/solitude-the-fearless-warrior-who-tackled-the-french-army-while-pregnant/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Solitude #FearlessWarrior #Napoleon #WomenInHistory #FreedomFighters
"How far will Harriet go?"
Excerpt: Strait Lace (Loxley Hall Books) by Rosemary Hayward - #TheCoffeePotBookClub, #BlogTour, #WomenInHistory, #Suffragettes, #HistoricalFiction,
