Today is International Day of Women in Diplomacy! #emdiplomacy was by no means an all male affaire. Women played a central role not only in mainting contacts to the queen's court and other female actors. They could also directly take part in negotiations, as the example of the Ladies' Peace of Cambrai (1529) shows. Here Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated for the Emperor and the king of France respectively.
If you want to know more, have a look at the #handbook article by Carolyn James who talks about female diplomatic actors.
Yvette Z'Graggen 1920-2012 #Swiss writer & translator, wrote novels, autobiography, short stories & radio plays. Age 6 invented characters who were allowed to do things she wasn't.Trained as secretary, studied @ Uni of Florence. #WWII worked @ International Red Cross. Produced cultural & literary programmes 4 radio, worked @ Comédie de Genève theatre. Writing examined women's lives & darker aspects of Swiss history #WomensHistory@histodons@CarveHerName New #wikipedia pg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Z'Graggen
Dolors Martí Domènech 1901–70 only woman to hold position of political responsibility in Catalan Republican government in Tarragona, Spain in 1930s. Socialist politician, worked to develop women's rights, a skilled public speaker. During Spanish Civil War was responsible for keeping supply chains running during bombings. Fled to France w family to escape Republican retribution, died in exile 1970. New #wikipedia pg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolors_Mart%C3%AD_Dom%C3%A8nech#WomensHistory@histodons@CarveHerName#WikiWomenInRed
Une collègue, mentore et amie, Andrée Lévesque, vient de faire paraître chez les Éditions du remue-ménage une monographie d'histoire que j'ai bien hâte à lire : Les filles de Jeanne : Histoires de vies anonymes, 1658-1915 @histodons
Executioner Johan Olofsson's receipt for the cost of executing Gertrud Jonsdotter, aged 50, and Sigrid Eriksdotter, aged 70, for witchcraft in Sveg's parish, Härjedalen, Sweden. The receipt is dated January 12, 1674.
Who put the "Marie" in bain-Marie, the double boiler that's used in cooking and chemistry? Atlas Obscura's Andrew Coletti looks at the history of the tool, which may be named after a Jewish alchemist called Miriam, who lived around the year 300.
Between the 1920s and 1940s, hundreds of debutantes signed up to be horse-riding couriers for the Frontier Nursing Service, a network of nurse-midwives in the rural mountains of Kentucky. Smithsonian Magazine tells the story of what they did, and why. "They got to wear pants, they got to act independently,” historian Melanie Beals Goan explains, adding that couriers were “really clinging to this idea of a nostalgic, isolated place where traditional American values continue to survive. Part of [the couriers’] adventure is the idea that they’re escaping from [parental] authority, but also that they’re going to go back in time to this really quaint place.”
The United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in 1920. But 50 years before that, Louisa Ann Swain, a grandmother in Laramie, Wyoming, cast her ballot on the way to the bakery to buy yeast. The BBC explains who she was, how that happened, and why Swain wasn't actually the first female voter in the U.S.
In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth I decided to do a toot a day with the hashtag #WomensNonfiction. Just because I love talking about books, and my favorite genre is (auto)biographies, memoirs, and journals of interesting women through the ages. And of course I want to see what you all have to add to the list 😊 📚📚📚
Since I am a bit late, I'll be catching up for the first few days 😅
@TarkabarkaHolgy@bookstodon Not sure how easy this is to get a hold of, but The Women I Think about at Night: Traveling the Paths of My Heroes by Mia Kankimäki is one of my faves. Originally written in Finnish, but has been translated to e.g. Swedish, French German too. #WomensHistory#nonfiction
Last week, we posted a Follow Friday about women historians on Mastodon and @gewam responded with an even bigger list. Here they are:
@AndreaLoew — historian at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. @elizabethward — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig
@AnkeFK —historian of war and violence with a passion for present and future peace
@christinkallama — researching nation and Holy Roman Empire in Renaissance Germany
@jojoweis — head of the research area Digital Literary and Cultural Studies at University of Trier
@sonjdol — historian at Otto von Guericke University
@mob — specialist in early modern history and digital humanities
@spatial_history — professor of spatial history and culture at the University of Erfurt
@ProfMSinha — president-elect 2024 of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author @Mareike2405 — deputy director at @dhiparis @historleans — associate professor, author @historianess — associate professor of history at NYU
"Few documents that survive from #medieval Europe were written by women or even dictated by women. Those that do are often formulaic, full of legal and religious language. Yet the wills and censuses that survive, and which I study, open a window into their lives and minds, even if not produced by women’s hands. These documents suggest that medieval women had at least some form of empowerment to define their lives – and deaths."
@yvonne Thanks for that interesting article by Prof Joëlle Rollo-Koster, which draws attention to the documentary treasures in store for a new generation of historians while perhaps understating the wealth of evidence accumulated by her own!
The will of one famously independent woman in medieval England is available in the original French with translation & analysis on the resource page at https://barnes1.net/FHGE/
Original Tiffany lamps, with their dazzling insect and floral motifs, often fetch tens to hundreds of thousands at auction, and appear in the permanent collections of prestigious museums everywhere. But without one visionary artist, Clara Driscoll, and a group of overlooked artisans known as the Tiffany girls, these iconic Art Nouveau creations would never have existed. Smithsonian Magazine pays tribute to the female designers who remade the Tiffany brand.
Alice Thornton was buried #otd 1 February 1707. For the 317th anniversary of her burial, followed - on 13 February – by the 398th anniversary of her birth, we have a new post looking back at her life through items held at a variety of archives and libraries in England and Ireland. We hope you enjoy this run through Alice Thornton's life and its documentary traces. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2024-02-01-AnniversaryBlog/ #WomensHistory#C17th@histodons@histodon@litodons