Remembering Resistance: A Century of Women's Protest in the North of England. Funded by @HeritageFundUK Based @LancasterUni
Lancaster, England
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It's done! I've submitted my thesis! Now for a celebratory nap...🥳 #phdlife #thesissubmission
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Who's joining Peggy Seeger and Frankie Armstrong for an evening of Greenham Singing on Saturday 29th August? 🙋 E-mail [email protected] to sign up!
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Join us Friday 7th August at 3pm when @CoalfieldWomen will be sharing research into the lived experiences of Women during the 1984-5 coal strikes.
Book your place now by emailing [email protected]
image: copyright Martin Shakeshaft
ALT Black and white photo of Women marching arm in arm along a road lined with terrace houses holding a banner reading "The Maerdy Women's Support Group"
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#OnThisDay, 21 June 1957, Ellen Fairclough becomes the first Canadian federal cabinet minister. She advocates for equal pay for equal work.
#WomenInPolitics #WomenInPower
ALT photo of Ellen Fairclough in her office
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#OnThisDay, 23 June 1972, US President Nixon signs into law Title IX, prohibiting sexual discrimination in federally funded education programs/activities. [image is from 1979]
ALT photo of woman holding a placard reading 'women athletes play with balls too'
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“I’m a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.” - Maya Angelou
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#OnThisDay, 11 Jun 1987, Diane Abbott is elected to the British Parliament, becoming the first Black female MP.
#WomenInPolitics #ThrowbackThursday
ALT photo of Diane Abbott in 1987
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"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others"
- Rosa Parks (1913-2005), civil rights activist
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#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1968, 187 women working at the Ford car factory in Dagenham, UK, go on strike demanding recognition as skilled workers.
They are led by Rosie Boland and Lil O'Callaghan. After three weeks they win concessions from management.
#EqualPay
ALT press photo of strikers with placards demanding equal rights and pay
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"Revolution is not a one-time event. It is becoming always vigilant for the smallest opportunity to make a genuine change...." - Audre Lorde.
US writer, feminist, civil rights activist.
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#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1973, Doris A Davis is sworn in as mayor of Compton, becoming the first black female mayor of a US city of more than 50,000 residents.
#WomenInPolitics #WomenLeaders #WomenInPower #FlashbackFriday
ALT photo of Doris A Davis being sworn in
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#OnThisDay, 5 Jun 1915, 12,000 people march in Copenhagen to celebrate Denmark's new Constitution giving women the right to vote and stand for election.
#SisterSuffragette #VotesForWomen #FLashbackFriday
ALT photo of crowd in Copenhagen
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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist, women's rights advocate, who chose to be photographed with her knitting. As an enslaved person, she had knitted/spun endlessly and when free later in life, she taught knitting to former enslaved women aiding self-sufficiency #womensart
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'Taking a Stand’, 2017, lone activist Ieshia Evans stands her ground as she is charged by riot police during a protest against police brutality outside the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana, USA (image J. Bachman)
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"I look at why the riots started - inequality, disadvantage, discrimination - they're still there, so it's an ongoing battle. I was seen as a troublemaker & I still am because things aren't right. So I'll live with that."
Liz Drysdale, Liverpool's first black woman councillor👏
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Hello. Every like or RT that puts historical women into people's timelines is something we cherish. We've noticed, though, that posts about white women are liked/RT'd more than other posts. Black lives matter. Black history matters. Please, amplify *all* women from history.
ALT photo of women holding 'black lives matter' placards
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In the words of Suffragette Alice Hawkins:
‘The wages of women are very much less than the wages of men. We feel that very keenly in our Trades Union, because many of our women do exactly the same work as the men and we claim we ought to have exactly the same pay’
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Today marks 50 years since the 1970 #EqualPayAct received royal assent: a defining moment in the history of women’s rights in the UK
Women had long campaigned for #equalpay. In the suffrage era, the vote was to be a way of influencing the government on important everyday issues
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#OnThisDay, 29 May 1970, the Equal Pay Act receives Royal Assent in the UK. It's seen as the lasting legacy of Barbara Castle MP.
#FlashbackFriday #FearlessFriday #FeministFriday
ALT photo of Barbara Castle
