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Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️

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#OnThisDay, 26 Nov 1867, Lily Maxwell voted in Chorlton-upon-Medlock’s Town Hall, Manchester.

It was one of the first recorded instances of a woman voting for an MP in the UK.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory 🗃️

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Photo of Lily Maxwell. She is an older white woman in Victorian widow's weeds (lots of black silk and lace).
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 25 Nov 1960, sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were assassinated for their political opposition to the Dominican dictator Trujillo.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #16Days 🗃️

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Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal. One is at the wheel of a jeep and the other two stand either side of her.
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#OnThisDay, 25 Nov 1741 (OS), Tsarevna Elizabeth Petrovna seized power over the Russian Empire in a Palace coup.

She was crowned Elizabeth I in 1742 and remained Empress till her death in 1762.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory 🗃️
A rather dramatic painting of Elizabeth speaking to troops ahead of the uprising. She is a white woman brightly lit by candle and lamp light. Surrounding her are men in uniform, many with bayonets mounted on their guns.
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 24 Nov 2015, mathematician Katherine Johnson receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work on the space programme.

Her story - and that of other women programmers - was told in 'Hidden Figures'.
Kathleen Johnson looked up and back as then President Obama puts the medal around her neck. She is a Black woman with white hair.
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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#OnThisDay, 20 Nov 1908, suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett became the first woman to speak at the Oxford Union debating society since its formation in 1823.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️

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Millicent Fawcett. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 19 Nov 1933, women across Spain voted for the first time.

General Franco seized power in 1939. Under his dictatorship only the heads of households could vote, radically reducing women's rights until his death in 1975.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #SpanishHistory 🗃️
Three older Spanish women in long gowns voting at a polling station in 1933. There is a woman receiving their ballots, and a couple of men and a young woman watching.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 18 Nov 1910, 119 people are arrested whilst protesting for the right for women to vote in the UK.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory 🗃️

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A woman lying on the ground clutching her face as a policeman and other men surround her.
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 17 Nov 2017, Evelyna Christina Wever-Croes was sworn in as Prime Minister of Aruba. She was the first woman to hold the role, which she kept after the 2021 elections.
Evelyna Wever-Croas sat at a desk in front of the Aruba flag. She is a white woman with fair hair.
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 16 Nov 1988, Benazir Bhutto's PPP won Pakistan's general election. She became the first woman to be Prime Minister of the country, taking up office in December.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️
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Benazir Bhutto being interviewed in 1988. She is a Pakistani woman wearing a white headscarf and large sunglasses. She is surrounded by men in suits.
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 15 Nov 1982, at least 11 women* from Greenham Common Peace Camp in the UK are sent to prison. They'd 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 #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Activist Rebecca Johnson being dragged from the Greenham site by two uniformed police men. They are all white. Photo by Ed Barber.
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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#OnThisDay, 14 Nov 1960, Ruby Bridges goes to school. She's the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz school in Louisiana, USA. It's a symbolic act, breaking segregation of education in the state.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Ruby Bridges walking down the steps of the school, surrounded by federal marshals. She is a six year old Black girl in a wide-skirted dress, carrying her schoolbag. They are tall white men in suits and hats.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#OnThisDay, 14 Nov 1917, US suffragists held at the Occoquan Workhouse are assaulted by the guards, at the order of the supervisor. The “Night of Terror” galvanises support for the women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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seven suffragists at the Occoquan Workhouse, with a female supervisor. They are white women of various ages, dressed in striped prison uniform apart from the supervisor who is in a white blouse.
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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black and white photo of Hattie Wyatt Caraway. She is a white woman with dark hair.
November 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 12 Nov 1951, Celia Franca's National Ballet of Canada holds its first performance. Franca had gathered the company from across Canada in just 10 months. She goes on to co-found the National Ballet School.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #BalletHistory
Black and white studio photo of Celia Franca in the 1950s. She is a white woman with dark hair.
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers opens in Leipzig. Appalled at cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the pit to prevent further performances.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory 🗃️
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sketch of Ethel Smyth by John Singer Sargent (1901). She is a white woman with light hair in a bun, mostly hidden under a large tam o'shanter hat.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice.

"I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in later life. She is a white woman with white hair wearing trousers, a frock coat and a topper. She still has the medal on the breast of her coat.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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Dr Mary Edwards Walker in a dress in around 1863, wearing the medal. She is a white woman with dark hair tied back.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.

This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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The silent sentinels standing in front of the white House with their banners demanding the vote. They are all white women in long skirts.
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 9 Nov 1994, voters in Sri Lanka elected Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga as their President. She was sworn in on 12 Nov and served for ten years.

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in the 1990s. She is a Sri Lankan woman wearing a sari.
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 8 Nov 1938, Crystal Bird Fauset is elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, becoming the first African-American woman state legislator.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
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Black and white photo of Crystal Bird Fauset sitting with Eleonor Roosevelt. Fauset is on the left of the picture and is a black woman in a light dress. Roosevelt is on the right, and is a white woman in a dark dress.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Promo showing the cover of Atwood's new memoir, Book of Lives, where she is dressed in pink and holding a finger to her lips. It includes a note of the promo code 'lives'.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).

She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.

#ReadMoreWomen
Margaret Atwood holding a copy of The Blind Assassin after winning the Booker in 2000. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo congratulate each other on jointly winning the prize in 2019. Atwood is a white woman with white hair, and Evaristo is a Black woman with natural hair.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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“I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.”

#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 1916, Jeanette Rankin is elected to the US House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to the House.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
black and white photo of Jeanette Rankin in the 1920s. She is a white woman with fair or red hair.
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#OnThisDay, 6 Nov 2012, Elizabeth Warren is elected US Senator for Massachusetts: the first woman to represent the State.

Her reading of Coretta Scott King's criticism of Jeff Sessions at his AG confirmation hearing prompted criticism, in turn creating the slogan #NeverthelessShePersisted.
Photo of Elizabeth Warren at a podium on her campaign trail. She is a white woman with blonde hair.
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Anthony is subsequently arrested, put on trial and found guilty.

At her trial she says: "you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored."
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photo of Susan B Anthony in the 1870s. She is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a plaid dress.
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM