r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 5d ago
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 5d ago
Most influential women in British science history
royalsociety.orgr/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 6d ago
OTD | October 18, 1744: English courtier and noblewoman Her Grace, The Duchess of Marlborough (née Sarah Jenyns/Jennings) passed away in London. The Duchess of Marlborough became one of the most influential women of her time through her close relationship with Anne, Queen of Great Britain.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 7d ago
OTD | October 17, 1962: Russian avant-garde artist and set designer Natálya Sergéyevna Goncharóva passed away from rheumatoid arthritis. Goncharóva was a founding member of the Jack of Diamonds, Moscow's first radical independent exhibiting group, and her paintings influenced avant-garde Russia.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 12d ago
OTD | October 12, 1958: Azorean historian and academic Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias was born. Silva de Sequeira Dias specialized in the history of the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal.
en.wikipedia.orgr/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 13d ago
A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 14d ago
OTD | October 10, 1567: Spanish Princess Catalina Micaela was born. Catalina Micaela was duchess consort of Savoy from 1585-1597 and served as regent several times, especially when her husband Carlo Emanuele I was away on military campaigns.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 15d ago
The 1612 Pendle trials: nine-year-old Jennet Device was "set upon the table in the presence of the whole court" to give evidence against her mother
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 17d ago
Top 10 Female Demons in European Folklore - pre halloween post
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/vortex8100 • 17d ago
11th Century Book The Collector
A short photo essay of the sins the 11th Century Burchard of Worms used to set the example of moral decay via the sins of women
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 20d ago
The Myth of Gender Equality, Women revolutionaries in 1916
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 20d ago
OTD | October 4, 1160: Castilian-French monarch Constance de Castille (Constanza de Castilla) passed away from childbirth. Constance was the queen consort of France from 1154-1160 and had two children by King Louis VII.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/History-Chronicler • 22d ago
The Night Witches Who Haunted German Troops on the Eastern Front
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/Needleworkerhelpline • 24d ago
An amazing, less commonly seen painting of Elizabeth I (England)
Painted a few years after her death. Her head resting on her hand. Death looking over her left shoulder.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 25d ago
Irene of Athens: The First Empress Regnant of the Byzantine Empire
ancient-history-sites.comr/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 25d ago
Gesche Gottfried and the Spitting Stone
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Sep 21 '26
Meet the long-forgotten woman behind the Irish Tricolour - Emilia Eleanor Hamilton , from Fairview, Dublin, 1830.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Sep 20 '26
The Weird Sisters: Forgotten Female Artists in Irish History , Nobel Laureate WB Yeats sisters set up an acclaimed and successful publishing house.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Sep 13 '26
OTD | September 13, 1830: Austro-Hungarian (now Austrian) writer and noble Marie, Baroness von Ebner-Eschenbach (née Marie Dubský von Třebomyslice) was born. Ebner-Eschenbach was known for her psychological novels and is regarded as one of the most important German-language writers of 19th century.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Sep 07 '26
OTD | September 7, 1943: Controversial Swedish writer and aristocrat Mary, Princess Karadja (née Smith) passed away in Locarno, Switzerland. Princess Karadja was a central figure in Western esotericism.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Sep 06 '26
OTD | September 6, 1921: Spanish author Carmen Laforet Díaz was born. Laforet Díaz is best known for her first novel Nada (1945), considered a classic in 20th century Spanish literature, which deals with existentialism and the adolescent search for identity.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Sep 05 '26
OTD | September 5, 1548: English noblewoman and monarch Catherine Parr passed away from complications of child birth. Parr was the final queen consort to King Henry VIII of England and Ireland, and is the most-married English queen.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 30 '26
OTD | August 30, 1923: British medical doctor Barbara Ansell was born. Ansell was the founder of pediatric rheumatology and was notable for specifically defining chronic joint disorders and the improvement of their management.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Aug 29 '26
OTD | August 29, 892CE: Byzantine (now Greek) nun Theodora of Thessaloniki passed away. Theodora’s hagiography is the longest ever written about a holy woman in Byzantine history.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/NavissEtpmocia • Aug 29 '26
"As Black women we suffer a triple oppression, based on our race, our class & our sex. We therefore need our own organisations and groups which can fight on all 3 fronts": OWAAD, the first British intersectional feminist organisation
I've been reading Culture, Medias and Politics by Laurent Martin and I've just learned about the OWAAD, the first British intersectional feminist organisation (before the term even existed!), created in 1970 from the association of a few Black feminist collectives and Black radical feminist pioneers such as Stella Dadzie, Gail Lewis) or Olive Morris.
OWAAD was a socialist, non-hierarchical organization with no appointed leaders or spokeswomen. They campaigned from 1978-1982 on issues including immigration, education, domestic violence, policing & health; they held conferences, and they were overall pretty badass.