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The Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park NYC (Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Candy Stanton) is inspiring.
https://t.co/Klgrod2LuO

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2023-03-07

Jessie the motorcycle is a hybrid of women motorcycle riders from history that followed their dreams. Check out the new JESSIE: QUEEN OF THE ROAD by https://t.co/l2IZlHq19T

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2023-02-04

- May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc / Jeanne d’Arc, age 19, was burned at the stake. From age 17, she led France to victories that turned the tide in the Hundred Years War, was wounded, captured and interrogated. Let's retrace her steps. 1/

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2023-01-09

Three women of the Southey circle in our collections at : an unknown lady (possibly a Southey sister); Edith Southey by Matilda Bethan, 1809; photo of Ruth Southey

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2022-06-20

Its the 90th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's flight across the Atlantic! Still inspiring to this day...

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2022-05-21

During the Irish Civil War, approximately 645 women were interned and over 200 went in hunger strike. Mary MacSwiney, one of Ireland’s first female TDs, famously protested her internment by hunger striking in tandem with her sister Annie.

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2022-05-18

'Women in History', Amelia Earhart - a new personal project to help expand on my portfolio portraits and historical knowledge 🤎

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2022-04-05

Throwback Thursday has returned, so here's a 2019 artwork I did of the female Egyptian Pharaoh Hatshepsut.

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2022-03-25

Looking for the perfect books for your reading list? Explore our newest picture book biographies featuring inspiring women who changed the world through art, exploration, flight, and even sewing!

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2022-03-05

Happy birthday HRH Queen Elizabeth II - 95 today. Longest ruling British monarch -   

  

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2021-04-22

Mary Creagh was Wakefield’s first woman MP, from 2005 to 2019, so she’s one of my local Women in History.
She’s now chief executive of the national charity for everyday walking,

https://t.co/JZq19AfKk2

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2021-03-28

18th-century artist Elizabeth Blackwell produced a beautiful herbal to pay off her husband's debts.
Read a about her here https://t.co/AxbqTwLmYG.
She also features in our online exhibition https://t.co/nax2W25f8e

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2021-03-02

Posthumous portrait of Chand Bibi of Ahmadnagar (d.1599) who became queen regent of Bijapur after her husband ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah I’s death & who defended her city against Mughal forces

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2021-03-02

Blog post: Revisiting some of the 'evil' women of Mercia. And a brief mention of one who was anything but 'evil'...
https://t.co/UM8czrs4yP


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2020-08-15

Florence Nightingale.
She was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.

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2020-07-22