#womensWork
When did spinsters spin?

Amy Erickson has a handy blogpost explaining how the ubiquity of spinning wool and other textiles in medieval and early modern England related to the marital status meaning of 'spinster': www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
June 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Another new article for #Skystorians #GenderHistory #WomensWork
September 18, 2026 at 1:06 PM
A nice #WomensWork detail in this account. 🗃️
19 July 1643 #OTD 3 grenades were shot into Chester by Sir William Brereton's army. According to Thornton, who lived there, 'The second alight short of the city, in a ditch, within a pasture amongst a company of women milking but was quenched without doing them harm at all' (Bk 1, 70). #EarlyModern
July 19, 2026 at 1:16 PM
This is a real long explanation from JD Vance that basically says, “I wasn’t about to take any time off to help raise my kid.”

#WomensWork 😓
October 2, 2024 at 4:38 AM
truly bizarre advert from the telegraph in 1916. It's for an adding machine- love the old fashioned quill pen though!
#Ww1
#WomensWork
June 7, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Solidarity sisters and brothers

#Womenswork
#CUPE
#CUPE4600
Letter: One million workers have CUPE Air Canada flight attendants’ back

The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) issued the following letter to Wesley Lesosky, President, Air Canada Component of CUPE: ofl.ca/one-million-...
One million workers have CUPE Air Canada flight attendants’ back | The Ontario Federation of Labour
The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) issued the following letter to Wesley Lesosky, President, Air Canada...
ofl.ca
August 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Freedom, joy & wildness are #womenswork this morning. (Hopefully they’ll be writing fuel, too.)
June 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Women's work was being devalued even as the work was increasingly mechanized. A very good thread 🧵
#TechnologyAndLabor #WomensWork
"A man may work from sun to sun, But a woman's work is never done." Jean Little
This Day in Labor History: August 9, 1910. The first patent was issued for the electric washing machine. Let's talk about technology and the transformation of women's unpaid domestic labor!
August 9, 2026 at 2:49 PM
This is begging to be a cross stitch

#Craftivism #WomensWork #Herstory
December 14, 2024 at 11:47 AM
March 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I’ve been photographing my “Walking Within” work in the studio along with the “call and response” of each journal written by gallery visitors responding to specific passages. 1/2

#woodfire #wildclay #journal #matriarchive #feministarchive #womenswork
January 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A different insight into #WomensWork. All three of the women named by Thornton were servants in her household (Mary a former servant, Hannah a current one, as was Barbara, albeit for Thornton's niece who was staying with them). #EarlyModern
20 July 1668 #OTD Thornton fell ill on hearing of rumours circulating about her: 'Barbara Todd, did impudently accuse, before my face, my servant (Hannah Ableton) for telling her from one Mary Breakes of several stories —which were very great lies and falsehoods against myself' (Bk Rem, 122). 🗃️
July 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM
July 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Today’s fun thing: Hang, by debbie tucker green, at Burbage Theatre (with Womenswork Theatre Collaborative)
January 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Small (30”x30”) silk quilt titled Dark Night Dreaming. Made before 1995. All hand sewn appliqué & embroidery. As I go through the documentation of my lifetime of work I find pieces I have forgotten. This is one.
#QuiltSky #HandSewn #ArtSky #WomensWork #RVA
August 31, 2026 at 6:32 PM
So Timmy me lad when are you going to start doing #MensWork. I would classify what you do, grifting for clicks, as a service job and therefore #WomensWork.
April 17, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Shout out to all the women who make the magic happen at Christmas!! ❤️

#ChristmasIsComing #Crossstitch #WomensWork #ChristmasGiftIdeas
December 13, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Continuing my journey through my download folder and found this gem. It's at least three or four years old. I have no idea where I got it from or who made it, but bless that artist's skill and brilliance.

#embroiderysky
#embroidery
#craft
#womenswork
February 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Welker stood up to him more than all the good ol' boys in the WH press corps do, on any given day. #WomensWork
June 7, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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