Meilan Solly

This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers? A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters

The National Museum of Women in the Arts is exhibiting 40 female #artists who made major contributions to 17th-century #art. These women were erased from #arthistory due to biases favoring painting and male artists.

– @smithsonianmag.bsky.social's @meilansolly.bsky.social

#artist #womeninhistory

The Real Story Behind 'Wolf Hall' and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's Most Controversial Adviser Based on Hilary Mantel's novel "The Mirror & the Light," the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles the last four years of the statesman's life

Ahead of the US release of #themirrorandthelight @pbs I was delighted to contribute to this thought-provoking piece in @smithsonianmagazine about #thomascromwell in fact and fiction www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

The Japanese WWII Soldier Who Refused to Surrender for 27 Years Unable to bear the shame of being captured as a prisoner of war, Shoichi Yokoi hid in the jungles of Guam until January 1972.

#OTD in 1972, Japanese WW2 vet Shoichi Yokoi was spotted by a pair of fisherman in a Guam jungle. He had been hiding out on the island for 27 years, since evading capture by Allies in the Battle of Guam. @meilansolly.bsky.social tells his wild story @smithsonianmag.bsky.social: loom.ly/mgw5L4c

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Discover Why Thomas Jefferson Meticulously Monitored the Weather Wherever He Went The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans' daily lives as farmers and enslavers

Learn how and why Thomas Jefferson, citizen scientist, tracked the weather. Learned a lot researching + writing this for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🗃️ ✍️ #skystorians www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...

Eclipse, Jupiter's moon, the fruit fly's brain: The top science stories of 2024 Potential life on a moon of Jupiter. Bird flu. The brain of the fruit fly. Those are just three of the top ten science stories of the year.

Uff da! Always hard to listen to the sound of your own voice. But if you want to hear a roundup of the year's biggest science stories, maybe you can endure this clip I recorded with @wbur.org? Thanks to Robin Young for the opportunity to chat about 2024's milestones. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Really enjoyed working with @meilansolly.bsky.social on this, even if it did involve the jarring experience of writing 'math' instead of 'maths' on several occasions...

After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook A 19th-century scholar claimed that "Cocker's Arithmetick" had "probably made as much stir and noise in the English world as any [book]—next to the Bible"

Excited to have the newly minted postdoc @jamesafox.bsky.social make a guest appearance in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social today! www.smithsonianmag.com/history/afte...

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These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same

Introducing my first @smithsonianmag.bsky.social story. Huge thanks to @meilansolly.bsky.social for her exceptional editing work. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thes...