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CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Jane Stitches<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@SmithsonianRoulette" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SmithsonianRoulette</span></a></span> <br>"Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Cushman" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_</span><span class="invisible">Cushman</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/womeninhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womeninhistory</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.</p><p>The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NobelWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 19 Apr 1967, Kathrine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.</p><p>She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>“I expect this will be the making of me.”</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and starts a ten day jail sentence. </p><p>She's released two days early for good behaviour.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.</p><p>As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NobelWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NobelWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.</p><p>Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 13 Apr 1985, Danuta Danielsson hits a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. Yes, that photo by Hans Runesson.</p><p>Danuta had been born in Poland in 1947, after her Jewish mother had survived a concentration camp. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>Very early <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.</p><p>Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London. </p><p>Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorldWar2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWar2</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.</p><p>As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 8 Apr 1968, Barbara Jane Harrison dies trying to rescue trapped passengers in an airplane fire at Heathrow. </p><p>She was later awarded the George Cross for bravery: she remains the only individual woman to receive the GC in peacetime.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AviationHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AviationHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p><p>1/9</p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSTEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSTEM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.</p><p>She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnglishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AnarchyInTheUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchyInTheUK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Dr Helen Wilson<p>Plympton St Mary, Devon</p><p>Bench end exquisitly carved by Mary, Ethel and Violet Pinwill in 1898, a few years after they had set up their own ecclesiastical woodcarving business. It features a spider in her web within a briar.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Woodcarving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Woodcarving</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PinwillSisters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PinwillSisters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women? </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 5 Apr 1992, Suada Dilberović, a Muslim, and Olga Sučić, a Catholic, were killed whilst on a peace protest in Sarajevo during the outbreak of the Bosnian war. They are the first civilian casualties in what became the Siege of Sarajevo. The siege lasted 1,425 days, and over 5,000 civilians were killed during it.</p><p>The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnthisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnthisDay</span></a>, 5 Apr 1971, Frances Phipps was the first woman to reach the North Pole, flying crew on a small plane to install a navigation beacon.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenExplorers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenExplorers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NorthPole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthPole</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.</p><p>Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
Petra van Cronenburg<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Smithsonianmag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Smithsonianmag</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@smithsonianmag/arts-culture-io8ku2afz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>arts-culture-Smithsonianmag</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Herstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Herstory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> ⬆️</p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles</p><p>A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greenham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenham</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Aldermaston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aldermaston</span></a> and Burghfield.</p><p>Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BritishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BritishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PeaceProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceProtests</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
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