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No words can express our respect and admiration for these women @womenwarriors.com @valeriavescina.bsky.social @meanwhileua.bsky.social @carolemason.bsky.social @pravda.ua @theukrainianreview.bsky.social
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‘Drone operators are hunted. You feel it from your first day’: the female pilots on Ukraine’s frontline
As casualties mount, recruitment is expanding. Three women talk about life in a male-dominated combat environment
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November 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a stream in a lush mossy forest with trees and ferns
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Today’s the feast day of St Cecilia patron saint of music.. here self portrait as St Cecilia by Artemisia Gentileschi Spada gallery Rome.
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
B1873 Victoria Lawrence in Leeds, by 1890s living in Osborne Terrace, Clapham Road (not sure about the lodger). She was extremely famous in UK & US and the song ‘Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow’ written for her.*
musichallsociety.bsky.social British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social · 4d
Vesta Victoria was born November 1873, for #songsheetsaturday here's her 1897 hit written by Fred Murray & Laurence Barclay. 'Our Lodger's Such a Nice Young Man'. He's such a good, goody young man, Mamma told me so, 'he kissed Mamma and all of us, cos Papa was away.'
Illustrated cover for sheet music of Vesta Victoria's song, 'Our Lodger's Such a Nice Young Man.' Form 1897
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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valeriavescina.bsky.social
Wonderful to see out in the world your book about these forgotten women's voices, @drnaomibaker.bsky.social! #booksky #earlymodern #womenshistory
drnaomibaker.bsky.social Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 5d
Spotted in @waterstones.bsky.social Cheadle, so I signed a few. It’s still so exciting to see it in the wild 🤩📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory #earlymodern
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
damesnet.bsky.social
'Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life' - remembering Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, South African writer and anti-apartheid activist @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @nobelprize.org @thebookerprizes.com
Colour photo of Nadine Gordimer
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
Powerful article from Beth Mead on how the #climate crisis is already threatening the future of sport & the importance of investing in adaptation. If you agree please do sign & share the petition urging Ministers to act petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Beth Mead: ‘If we don’t adapt to climate change, football becomes a privilege, not a right‘
The Arsenal and England forward is backing new global campaign because talent and teamwork should decide the game – not the climate
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November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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#OnThisDay, 20 Nov 1908, suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett became the first woman to speak at the Oxford Union debating society since its formation in 1823.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️

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Millicent Fawcett. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
damesnet.bsky.social
Dame Elisabeth Frink #BOTD 1930, sculptor and printmaker. part of a postwar group of British sculptors. One of 5 'Women of Achievement' selected for a set of stamps issued August 1996 @womensartbluesky.bsky.social @royalacademy.bsky.social @womenart.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
damesnet.bsky.social
Read damesnet's blog on what women in Mexico face: damesnet.com?p=11215

@jwomenshistory.bsky.social @susannahwalker.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com @carolemason.bsky.social @emrazz.bsky.social

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‘Attacked no matter what they do’: why female politicians face relentless cycle of abuse
Assault on Mexican president highlights abuse faced by women in politics and ‘reinforces patriarchal boundaries’
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November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
damesnet.bsky.social
Why is there never any mention of windfall taxes on arms companies? They must be coining it... @taxjustice.net #budget #Rachelreeves @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @labourlewis.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera The Wreckers opens in Leipzig. Appalled at cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the pit to prevent further performances.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory 🗃️
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sketch of Ethel Smyth by John Singer Sargent (1901). She is a white woman with light hair in a bun, mostly hidden under a large tam o'shanter hat.
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Martha Gellhorn #BOTD 1908: US novelist, travel writer, journalist, one of the great war correspondents of the 20th C. Reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @womenjournos.bsky.social @womenwriters.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Janaki Ammal was born 128 years ago today! A legend of botanical genetics, she studied how polyploidy plays into the resilience of agricultural crops, compiled a sprawling chromosomal atlas of plants, and fought for the preservation of India's natural legacy.

tinyurl.com/2j9hxmjb

#WomenInSTEM
Janaki Ammal And the Fight for India’s Botanical Future.
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potential. Being of an undesirable categorizat...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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It’s inexplicable that British departments of State & politicians use Musks X.. he’s calling for insurrection & civil war in the UK #wato
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
damesnet.bsky.social
'I can't afford the luxury of despair or pessimism. We still have to hope. We're a timeless people...' Remembering poet, artist and political activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal, #BOTD in 1920, the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of poetry @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk
Aboriginal artwork by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, signed as Kath Walker Black and White photo portrait of Oodgeroo Noonuccal
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Cypress Garden's water skiing troupe, 1955, Florida, US #WomensArt
#Halloween #FridayFeeling !
Monochrome photograph featuring three white women water skiing in pointed hats, one woman stands on the shoulders of the other two
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
Mrs Margaret Graham, the first female pilot to make a solo balloon ascent
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
damesnet.bsky.social
Respect and more to the #women of Ukraine. Their strength and resilience is formidable @carolemason.bsky.social #RussiansoutofUkraine @womenwritersnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenwarriors.com. @pravda.ua @meanwhileua.bsky.social

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Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going
Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility
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October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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bobhawkins.bsky.social
Born on this day in 1744 in London Mary Moser flower painter,together with Angelica Kauffman the only founding female members of the Royal academy in 1768… the next woman to be elected was Laura Knight in 1936.
October 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Actress Elsa Lanchester b1902 Lewisham, also lived Norwood, Clapham, Catford & Battersea in childhood. She left for Hollywood in 1930s, most famous role Bride of Frankenstein.
She died 1986, her remains have now been discovered in a rose garden in N Hollywood
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October 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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BBC News - King unveils new memorial to LGBT veterans after gay ban campaign - BBC News
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King unveils new memorial to LGBT veterans after gay ban campaign
A memorial is unveiled dedicated to gay military personnel and to those who served during the armed forces gay ban.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social
1/2 Mabel Constanduros (nee Tilling, member of bus company family) b1880 Peckham, writer & actress. Pioneer of radio comedy, best known for creating, writing & performing in The Buggins, the first very popular comic cockney radio family set in Walworth.
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🚨 Amelia King, volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943, was rejected by Essex farmers. This week's Substack post on John Scurr House in Stepney looks at the racial discrimination suffered by residents and its later redevelopment.
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Contemporary leaflet protesting against the discrimination shown again a young black volunteering for the Women's Land Army in 1943.
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM