Mastodawn

#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

She's never captured.

She died in 2023, in New Zealand.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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Helen Pugh 1d ago

Unknown, unpaid, uncelebrated, unrecognised, unrewarded...
Unsung Women in Somerset

Head to https://1link.st/helenpugh to find out more!

#somerset #womenshistorymonth #womenshistory #women #history #histodon #bookstodon #inspiring #sensational #jawdropping #eyeopening

Will 🇯🇵2d ago

#GoodNews

Four months on but news to me.

‘Although women’s lives are so limited by society, Lolly observes, they “know they are dynamite … know in their hearts how dangerous, how incalculable, how extraordinary they are”.’

#WomensHistory

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/12/dorset-unveils-sylvia-townsend-warner-statue?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Dorset to unveil statue of feminist writer and LGBTQ+ pioneer – and a cat

Tribute to Sylvia Townsend Warner follows campaign to nominate overlooked women

The Guardian

CarveHerName 3d ago

#OnThisDay, 30 April 1937, 447,725 women in the Philippines vote to be given the vote in the women's suffrage plebiscite.

Yes, the government did ask women to vote on whether they should have the vote…

https://asiafoundation.org/2012/03/07/early-feminism-in-the-philippines/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

CarveHerName 3d ago

#OnThisDay, 30 Apr 1920, the French women’s national football team played the first of four matches against Dick, Kerr Ladies in Preston, England. In front of a crowd of 25,000.

It was the first time a women’s international match had a national team selected after try-outs. The Dick, Kerr Ladies returned the fixtures, playing in France in October 1920.

This could be footage of the match:
https://youtu.be/gwzXon-HYys?si=qe_qdaGz-3IMW6Ig

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Football #Histodons

Women Footballers (1920)

YouTube

CarveHerName 3d ago

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

Debbie Cameron 3d ago

It’s #WorkersMemorialDay My research into the accident of a woman working in a heavy job in #WW1 It was a story about hard work by women, the involvement of unions and the input of inquests into safety measures #womenshistory www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/mrs-clarkson...