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photo of Julia Gillard in 2012. She is a white woman with red hair.

#OnThisDay, 27 Feb 2012, Julia Gillard sees off a leadership challenge to remain Prime Minister of Australia.

#OnThisDay, 26 Feb 1987, the Church of England's General Synod vote to clear the way for the ordination of women priests. The first women are ordained in March 1994.

‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867 - The History of Parliament More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a parliamentary vote. Dr Kathryn Rix

With the Gorton and Denton by-election taking place tomorrow, we're sharing our article on an earlier Manchester by-election. How was a woman able to vote there in 1867, decades before women received the parliamentary franchise? Find out more here: historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...

Aquino had won an election earlier that month but dictator Marcos - who had held power since 1965 - refused to step down.

The People Power Revolution demanded the restoration of democracy, and the military supported Aquino in removing him.

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Corazon Aquino, dressed in yellow which was the colour of the revolution, being sworn in as President. She is a Filipino woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 25 Feb 1986, Corazon Aquino is sworn in as President of the Philippines. She is the first women to become President of the country, and to lead a country in southeast Asia.


#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

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Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

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Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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If you are thinking of doing something for #IWD2026, please use the UN's theme of rights justice and action for all women and girls.

The top return on search engines is a commercial site that's hijacked the day for non-political fluff. The UN day focusses on rights.

www.unwomen.org/en/n...

staged press photo of Constance Baker Motley entering her office as President of the Borough of Manhattan. She is a Black woman.

#OnThisDay, 23 Feb 1965, Constance Baker Motley is elected Manhattan Borough President, the first woman to hold the office. She had been a state senator, and would go on to be a federal judge.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️

Please don’t colourise photos: it’s an illusion that pollutes the historical record.

Hettie Bussell in B&W headshot photo

Hettie Bussell UK's 1st woman railway engineer. 1934 tracer with Great Western Railway #Cardiff, #WWII draughtsman joined civil engineering dept, career in #BritishRail. Spoke @ 2nd & 3rd #ICWES conferences. @wes1919.bsky.social President 1976-7. b. #OTD 19 Feb 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...

You should maybe read the rest of the thread?

As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
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studio photo of Doria Shafik. She is an Egyptian woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory 🗃️
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Women of WW2 Checkout out this list on Bookshop

Some of our other sources are here: uk.bookshop.org/lists/women-...

The Heroines of SOE: Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section Britain's Secret Women in France: F Section

We got a lot of info from The Heroines of SOE by Squadron Leader Beryl E Escott as she detailed precise dates all the women of F section arrived in France.

uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9780...

OK, but we were posting a statue of an actual named woman, by an actual named woman, rather than a generic statue.

Statues aren't our key focus here, is what we're saying.

She stuck to her cover story and was released a few months after her arrest. She then successfully convinced the orphanage to return her baby to her and went into hiding until liberation.

She was awarded the Croix de Guerre by France.
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The Irish-born Herbert had been operating as a courier - moving messages and equipment around - for over a year. She'd also had a baby whilst in France.


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snapshot photo of Mary Herbert. She is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a neckerchief and smiling.

#OnThisDay, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 🗃️

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Frances E. Willard Statue This statue of Frances Willard was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Illinois in 1905. Her statue was the first honoring a woman to be chosen for the collection.

More about the statue here: www.aoc.gov/explore-...
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a white marble statue of Frances Willard, a woman in late nineteenth century dress.

#OnThisDay, 17 Feb 1905, a statue of Frances Willard is unveiled in the US Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Helen Farnsworth Mears's stature of Willard was the first statue of a woman to be included in the Hall.

#StatuesOfWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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Somayya Anwar Jabarti, smiling at the camera. She is an Arabic woman wearing a brown headscarf and glasses.

#OnThisDay, 17 February 2014, Somayya Anwar Jabarti has her name on the masthead of the daily Saudi Gazette, an English language newspaper, for the first time. She was the first woman to be editor-in-chief of a national newspaper in Saudi Arabia.

newspaper clipping headed "three more suffragettes released from Holloway gaol yesterday" above photos of five women (the three released and two of the women greeting them)

#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.

The picture shows their release the next day.

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

Herbertine Auclert sitting at her editor's desk. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1881, Herbertine Auclert publishes the first edition of La Citoyenne in Paris, France. The feminist newspaper runs for ten years.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #WomenPublishers 🗃️

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In the sea.

#OtD 12 Feb 1970 hundreds of women textile workers at the John Collier factory in Leeds walked out on wildcat strike for pay equality with men. The union denounced the strike, but it spread until the employers agreed pay rises for women and men. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8388...