#SwissHistory
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.*

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.

#WomenInHistory #SwissHistory 🗃️

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February 7, 2026 at 11:28 AM
#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.

#WomenInHistory #SwissHistory 🗃️
February 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In this OA article, Jamie Page analyses how ideas of manhood were used to make sense of the the 1489 ‘Waldmann Affair’ in Zurich, and places them within a larger story of the emerging Swiss Confederation.

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#SkyHistorians #Masculinity #SwissHistory
All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
This article examines chronicle accounts of the so-called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt ...
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September 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM
#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.

#WomenInHistory #SwissHistory #Histodons
February 7, 2024 at 8:30 AM
“The Secrets of Morgarten”
TWO WEEKS to publication!
#HistoricalFiction #MedievalMystery #SwissHistory #WilliamTell #KnightsTemplar
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November 22, 2023 at 8:20 AM
Elisabeth Müller, author of "Six Kummerbuben“, was born #odt in 1885 in the Emmental valley. For her numerous works, Müller received the Swiss Youth Book Prize, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, and Literature Prize of the City of Bern.
#SwissHistory
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We are delighted that our video essay on working animals ruralfilms.eu/ruralfilms/v... is also being discussed in Latin America.
#AgrarianHistory #aghist #SwissHistory #ruralhistory
November 7, 2023 at 10:36 AM
Giovanni Segantini was a painter of realistic symbolism, and his pointillist paintings of the high mountains still inspire enthusiasm today. Many of his works are associated with landscapes in the Grisons, where he lived for many years. He died #otd near Pontresina in 1899.
#SwissHistory
September 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Aktuell: Porträt über das Archiv für Agrargeschichte AfA im Spendenmagazin von stiftungschweiz.ch:
spendenmagazin.stiftungschweiz.ch/das-virtuell... Das AfA kann seine Arbeit nur weiterführen, wenn es Spenden erhält. #aghist #foodhistory #ruralhistory #archivCH #histCH #SwissHistory
November 24, 2023 at 11:55 AM
We've just recently celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Murten when the Swiss army, helped by the Alsacians, the county of Lorraine and Austria defeated Charles the Bold. #history #switzerland #swisshistory
August 13, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Switzerland Becomes a Federal State

#TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #SwissHistory #FederalConstitution #Switzerland #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
September 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
If you are around, do come to the opening of our exhibition at the Maurice Chalumeau Centre for Sexual Sciences (in Geneva) on the 21st of October! We look forward to seeing you there!

🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
If anybody is in Geneva in the week of the 20th of October: Please come on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2025 (5:00pm), to the opening of the exhibition “Masculinity in Question: Remedies and Devices against Nocturnal Emissions (18th to 21st Centuries)” at the CMCSS, Campus Batelle, Bâtiment A!

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October 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
June 23 is #Jura Independence Day. A regional public holiday celebrated by the Canton of Jura in #Switzerland. It commemorates the separation of the Jura region from the Swiss Canton of #Bern, leading to its establishment as an independent canton on this date in 1979.
#swisshistory #SwissCulture
June 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Flavio Eichmann, Generalsekretär der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte (www.sgg-ssh.ch) erklärt, wer die parlamentarische Gruppe "Geschichte" der SGG ist & und was sie macht: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbB-... #archivCH #SwissHistory
#ruralhistory #histCH
Flavio Eichmann (Generalsekretär SGG)
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March 19, 2024 at 8:11 AM
The AM 2024 of the Agricultural History Society takes place on June 5-8. The Archives of Rural History (ARH) are organising a Session on films. With: M. Ó Fathartaigh, J. Anderson, P. Moser & Diana Méndez Rojas
Program: aghistorysociety.org/2024-meeting
#AgrarianHistory #aghist #SwissHistory
March 12, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Zwei Blicke auf ein Fach: Die NZZ berichtet von schwindendem, die Wochenzeitung WOZ von steigendem Interesse der Jugend an Geschichte...
#archivCH #histCH #SwissHistory
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Archiv für Agrargeschichte: Wer die Geschichte nicht verstehen will | WOZ Die Wochenzeitung
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February 29, 2024 at 8:59 AM
William Tell (2024): when a Swiss legend becomes a British lecture in bad CGI, token casting, and historical amnesia. Crossbows, mountains, and absolutely no point.
#WilliamTell #FilmReview #SwissHistory #CinemaFail #CastingChaos
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William Tell Me Lies (Tell Me Shitty Little Lies)
What’s more insensitive? An adaptation of Wilhelm Tell without Indians, or one without Swiss and Austrians? Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 drama centers on the Swiss struggle for independence from the H…
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August 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM