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2025-04-18

#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.

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.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen #Histodons

photo of Baroness Bertha von Suttner. She is a white woman with light hair, wearing what looks like Victorian mourning clothes.
2025-04-15

A study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.
I mean, like, obviously.
livescience.com/archaeology/in
#SocialInequality #Inequality #Pleistocene #Archaeology #EuropeanHistory #PoliticalHistory

2025-04-13

#OnThisDay, 13 Apr 1985, Danuta Danielsson hits a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. Yes, that photo by Hans Runesson.

Danuta had been born in Poland in 1947, after her Jewish mother had survived a concentration camp.

#EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

A white neo-Nazi skinhead carrying a large flag is oblivious to the large handbag about to hit him over the head. The woman wielding the handbag has her legs spread to give herself a good swing. She's white, with dark hair.
2025-04-12

#OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1229, regent Blanche of Castile oversees the signing of the Treaty of Paris on behalf of her son, King Louis IX. She had previously raised an army to defend his territories against Raymond VII of Toulouse.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

Highly romantised white marble statue of Blanche of Castile in Paris.
2025-04-09

#OnThisDay, 9 Apr 1944, Lise de Baissac returns to France to resume work as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

She gathered and passed on information, and took part in armed attacks. At one point she rented a room in a house occupied by the local commander of the German Forces.

Muriel Byck also arrives to be a SOE wireless operator. She dies of meningitis whilst still in France.

#History #OTD #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory

Lise de Baissac in her First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) uniform. She is a white woman with fair hair.
2025-04-06

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.

Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.

They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.

#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory

photo of Violette Szabo. She is a white woman with darkish hair.photo of Lillian Rolfe. She is a white woman with dark hair.
2025-04-05

Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women?

#OnThisDay, 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.

The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.

#WomenInHistory #EuropeanHistory #OTD #History #Histodons

A photo of the memorial sign on the bridge. Someone has placed white flowers in the basket designed for that. Photo by jaimesilva on flickr.
2025-03-24

#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE

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studio photo of Éliane Plewman in civvies. She is a white woman with dark hair.
2025-03-18

Step into Europe's historic markets and streets, where centuries-old traditions come alive. From the bustling stalls of Istanbul's Grand Bazaar to the charming lanes of Prague's Nový Svět, immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of culture and history.

#HistoricMarkets 🏛️ #CulturalHeritage 🌍 #EuropeanHistory 🗺️ #TravelEurope ✈️

europa.tips/en/europe-historic

2025-03-17

🖥 Arturo Zoffman's lecture at Sabanci University on his new project, ‘The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship’, funded by the European Research Council, is available on YouTube.

The lecture took place in the context of Arturo's research stay funded by the Erasmus+ programme.

youtube.com/watch?v=4qvbh8iqg_

@histodons
@histodon

#STEXEU #ERCStG #EU_funded #PoliticalHistory #EuropeanHistory #ContemporaryHistory #Dictatorships #HistóriaPolítica #HistóriaDaEuropa #HistóriaContemporânea #Ditaduras

2025-03-05

🆕 Contrary to what many might think, it’s not just students who “go on Erasmus” to other countries. An example of this is researcher Arturo Zoffmann, who went to Turkey to spend a month at Sabancı University in Istanbul with the support of the Erasmus+ programme. 🇹🇷

👉 What is he doing there? We'll tell you here: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/arturo-zoffman

@histodons

#Histodons #EuropeanHistory #PoliticalHistory #STEXEU #EU_funded #ERCStG #FirstWorldWar #StatesOfException #Balkans #TurkishHistory #ErasmusPlus

Fotografia do Arturo Zoffmann
Jonathan Emmesedijemmesedi@c.im
2025-03-04

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March 4th 1875 saw the birth of Count Mihály Károlyi, who from November 1918 to March 1919 was president of the First Hungarian Republic.

The francophile, left leaning aristocrat's attempt to lead Hungary into an era of reform and peaceful multinationality was thwarted by a French backed territorial dismemberment, Béla Kun's disastrous attempt to sovietize Hungary, and the eventual violent seizure of power by the reactionary regime of Admiral Horthy.

In exile until his return to Hungary in 1946, he served as ambassador of Hungary to France from 1947 -1949, when he resigned in protest against the show trial and judicial murder of László Rajk. He died in France in 1955.

Károlyi remains controversial. Hungarian rightwingers revile him as a traitor who allowed Hungary to be carved up. I see him as a tragic figure, whose faith in liberal ideals could not prevail in 1919 against the ruthless power politics of the Allies on the one hand and of the Bolsheviks on the other.

I want to return to "Against the World", the memoir he published in 1925. I read parts of it years ago, and remember him painting a vivid picture of growing up in an aristocratic family during the last years of the Habsburg empire.

Image: Mihály Károlyi -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

#MihályKárolyi #Hungary #EuropeanHistory #History

Black and white portrait photography of Mihály Károlyi  looking pensive  as rests his head against his left hand.
2025-02-22

#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.

Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

#WomenInHistory #History #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #Histodons

snapshot of Sophie Scholl, laughing. She is a white woman with dark hair.
2025-02-18
📍 Prague Astronomical Clock located in Old Town Square, Prague, Czech Republic. The oldest parts of the clock are thought to date back to 1410.
#astrologicalclock #historicalarchitecture #prague #europe #europeanhistory #europeanarchitecture #photography #travelphotography #traveldestination
#clock #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalarchitecture #travel #czechia #czechrepublic
2024-11-28

Cláudia Ninhos is one of the authors of the paper ‘Travailleurs portugais et espagnols dans l'Allemagne nazie : trajectoires parallèles, chemins croisés’, published in the journal Exils et migrations ibériques aux XXe et XXIe siècles.

In it, the authors show how the life stories of Portuguese and Spanish labourers crossed paths several times in Nazi Germany.

👉 shs.cairn.info/revue-exils-et-

@histodons

#Histodons #NaziGermany #EuropeanHistory #LabourHistory #AlemanhaNazi #HistóriaDoTrabalho

Heading of the paper “Travailleurs portugais et espagnols dans l’Allemagne nazie : trajectoires parallèles, chemins croisés", by Cristina Clímaco, Cláudia Ninhos, and Marta Simó, with translation from Portuguese by Clara Domingues and translation from Spanish by Corinne Gaudefrin. Abstract in French: “De l’Espagne de l’entre-deux-guerres à l’Allemagne nazie, les parcours de vie de Portugais et Espagnols se croisent à plusieurs reprises. D’abord dans l’armée républicaine espagnole, puis dans les camps d’internement français, puis encore dans les usines du IIIe Reich après l’été 1940. À l’IG Farben, de Bitterfeld, un Portugais, ancien de l’Espagne républicaine, recruté au camp du Vernet, témoigne de l’arrivée et du séjour des Espagnols de la CIPETA (Commission interministérielle permanente pour l’envoi de travailleurs en Allemagne), à l’automne 1941. Le récit de Pedro Baptista da Rocha délivre, malgré les stéréotypes, une image nuancée de la composition du groupe et de sa présence à Biterfeld.”

#EuropeanHistory picks of the day:

➡️ @yvonne - Historian of medieval women & religion in Europe

➡️ @domwass@scholar.social (main) & @domwass@ramblingreaders.org (book reviews) - Medieval historian at University of Cologne (in German & English)

➡️ @BHO - Digital library of British history

➡️ @IHChistory - Multidisciplinary research institute in modern & contemporary history, Lisbon

➡️ @eseh - European Society for Environmental History

➡️ @bhp - British History Podcast

➡️ @OxMedStud - Oxford medieval studies platform

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2024-09-25
Die Friedenskirche in Potsdam spiegelt für mich den romantischen Idealismus des 19. Jahrhunderts wider. Ihr Design, inspiriert von italienischen Basiliken, symbolisiert die Sehnsucht nach Frieden und Schönheit in einer unruhigen Zeit. Beim Betreten fühle ich die zeitlose Verbindung von Kunst, Spiritualität und dem Traum von einer besseren Welt.

The Church of Peace in Potsdam reflects the romantic idealism of the 19th century for me. Its design, inspired by Italian basilicas, symbolizes the longing for peace and beauty in turbulent times. When I enter, I feel the timeless connection between art, spirituality, and the dream of a better world.


#ChurchOfPeace #Potsdam #RomanticIdealism #19thCenturyArt #ItalianArchitecture #HistoricalPlaces #CulturalHeritage #Romanticism #ArtAndSpirituality #HiddenGemsEurope #PeacefulArchitecture #HistoricChurches #TravelGermany #EuropeanHistory #ArchitecturalInspiration #TimelessBeauty #BasilicaInspiration #DreamOfPeace #HistoricDesign #RomanticArchitecture
Friedenskirche Potsdam
2024-09-23

Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Sept 1943, Pearl Witherington parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French Resistance and a courier was tasked with moving papers and equipment around their network.

Witherington takes over leadership of her network, eventually commanding 1,500 maquis and overseeing the surrender of 18,000 German troops.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

Pearl Withington in her Women's Air Auxiliary Force uniform. She is a white woman with her cap at a very nifty angle.

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