NEW PODCAST EPISODE JUST RELEASED!!
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My podcast comes from my research of women throughout history for my books, which include Unsung Women in Somerset, On This Day in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales.
The podcast showcases women from England, South America and all across the globe.
#genderrights #womenshistorymonth #history #historical #medieval #britishhistory #spain #podcast #newpodcast #podcastepisode
#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.
Photo: Paula Allen.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/greenham-women-22-march-1982/
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons
#WhatWereReading : Joe found Professor Anna Whitelock's The Sun Rising (pub Bloomsbury) to be a fascinating insight into the change from the Elizabethan to Stewart period, laying foundations for a more global Britain afterwards (for good & ill!).
Less a biography of James, more about the world changing around him, at home and abroad (in a seemingly ever expanding world as ships explore more and more of the globe), and how he and those around him react or change to those.
Now in PB
#books #livres #History #Histoire #TheSunRising #JamesI #JamesVI #AnnaWhitelock #HistoryBooks #LivresHistoires #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon #BritishHistory #ScottishHistory
#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.
OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action.
Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #London #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 15 Mar 1927, the inaugural women's boat race between Oxford and Cambridge takes place on the Isis.
In 2015, the women’s race was finally held on the same day, and over the same course, as the men’s race.
Watch silent newsreel of the 1927 race here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J6kqhJGOWI
More: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2015/03/women-making-waves-newton-womens-oxford.html
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #BoatRace #ThisGirlCan #BritishHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1942, the current Waterloo Bridge in London partially opens. The construction force included many women, giving it the nickname “the Ladies Bridge”.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/england-built-by-women/
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1928, hundreds of women march through London to a Communist Party rally, demanding better working conditions.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #LondonHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.
#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE JUST RELEASED!!
Head to patreon.com/helencpugh
My podcast comes from my research of women throughout history for my books, which include Unsung Women in Somerset, On This Day in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales.
The podcast showcases women from England, South America and all across the globe.
#podcast #newpodcast #podcastepisode #genderrights #womenshistorymonth #history #historical #tudor #britishhistory #sweden
#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest.
They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it.
#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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