#Womenhistory
📰 İnci (Pearl): A Women's Magazine in Istanbul, Issue 16, May 16, 1920 #WomenHistory #Magazine #Press
March 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
✨A female illuminators work✨:
f. 84v : 'Alanus scripsit has horas et ejus uxor illuminavit eas.’
f. 84v: 'Alan wrote these hours and his wife illuminated them.'

I have been waiting for this manuscript to be scanned in colour for a very long time, so am super excited to see it now!
November 12, 2024 at 4:52 PM
8/4/1869 — b. Evelyn Jane Sharp, English militant suffrage leader, teacher, author, journalist, orator. A key figure in the British suffrage movement (pre + post #WWI); a leader in the Women’s Social & Political Union, and the United Suffragists orgs #womenhistory #womensrights #womenwriters #PolSky
August 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
2/16/1883 — b. Elizabeth Craig, British home economist, author, journalist. One of the most important British cookery authors of the 20th century; wrote 40+ books,primarily #cookbooks + a few household management books #womenhistory #WomenInSTEM #EconSky #SciSky #EduSky #food #affordability #BookSky
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre
"Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre" published on 18 Nov 2024 by Brill.
doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
This evening!

Global Perspectives on Women and the Reformations
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Distinguished Professor Emerita, U. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Wednesday 13 November 2024, 16.00-17.15 GMT online (only)
Zoom link: bit.ly/Wiesner-Hank...
November 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Hüma Hatun and Mara Brankovic #history #womenhistory #digitalart
October 3, 2023 at 8:36 PM
"We are partnering with Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly to increase the visibility of women in computing in American history."

#womenhistory #womenscience #womenmathematics #womencomputing

womenshistory.si.edu/human-comput...
Human Computer Project
womenshistory.si.edu
February 2, 2026 at 6:23 AM
Indigenous people, Black people #WomenHistory
March 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Hey! All those people learning Dutch! Here’s a lovely new podcast about #earlymodern #womenhistory!

(Natuurlijk ook voor degenen die al Nederlandstalig zijn :) Fijne thematische discussies aan de hand van edelvrouwen, vooral Anna van Croy & Marie Catherine van Merode) #SkyStorians
Vrouwen des Huizes
History Podcast · Updated weekly · Vrouwen des Huizes is een historische podcast waarin twee adellijke vrouwen centraal staan: hertogin Anna van Croy (1564–1635) en gravin Marie Catherine van Merode (...
podcasts.apple.com
April 6, 2026 at 2:27 PM
In our latest blog post, Kirsty Bolton reflects on her experience of claiming a space of her own and the ways mothers occupied and used space within #medieval romances. Read the blog 👉 buff.ly/ZGItAjv
@lusignanmermaid.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #womenhistory
January 30, 2026 at 7:15 AM
If you’d like to be inspired by amazing women I recommend a non fiction book, The Mercury 13!
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#womenhistory #womeninspace #mercury13 #space #blueorigin #bookrec #nonfictionbooks #Booksky
April 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Five trailblazing female stained glass artists

From the collection at The Stained Glass Museum

by Emily Allen via @europeana@glammr.us

www.europeana.eu/en/stories/f...

#art #crafts #womenhistory
April 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
1/20/2022 — Zara Rutherford, British-Belgian aviatrix, becomes the youngest woman to fly solo around world after a 155-day journey www.msn.com/en-us/news/w... #womenhistory #WomenInSTEM #aviation #AVgeeks #OTD
January 20, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Thank you so much, Robin, for including Grace Lee Boggs: Gardens of Hope in this beautiful #nationallibrayweek celebration selection! ❤️📚🌱
@albertwhitman.bsky.social @picturebookgold.bsky.social #nationallibraryweek #k12 #womenhistory #bio #nonfiction #gardens
#2 in our count up to National Library Week!
April 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📌 Wednesday, 10 December
Don’t miss Sarah Apetrei’s seminar on “Radical Women and Radical Theology: England’s Mystical Revolution, 1640–60"
📍Università degli Studi di Firenze🕚 11:00–13:00
💻 Join online: meet.google.com/xsy-rube-mkp

#EarlyModernEngland #ReligiousHistory #WomenHistory #Mysticism
December 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
5/20-21/1932 — Amelia Earhart, American aviator, becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She began the 15 hour flight at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Canada, and ended her journey near Londonderry, Northern Ireland #womenhistory #WomenInSTEM #aviation #AVgeeks #SciSky #HistSci
May 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Repost and ReConnect
Women in the U.S. Military
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor, had her award revoked and later reinstated.
#Veterans #Military #CoastGuard #history #WAC #vet #WomenArmyCorps #Army #Navy #Marines #Airforce #reserve #womenhistory
August 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
4/23/1910 — b. Sheila Scott Macintyre, Scottish-American mathematician, researcher, professor. Noted for her work on the Whittaker constant and for creating a multilingual mathematical dictionary written in English, German and Russian #womenhistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMath #mathematicians
April 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM