#OnThisDay, 30 April 1937, 447,725 women in the Philippines vote to be given the vote in the women's suffrage plebiscite.
Yes, the government did ask women to vote on whether they should have the vote…
https://asiafoundation.org/2012/03/07/early-feminism-in-the-philippines/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
The buildings are pieced! There was one small section I had to hand stitch because the bits were too small to sew the y-seam with my machine. Nothing like designing a pattern that that’s too difficult for you to actually make 🤦♀️
Next up is letters and borders. There’s an interesting xoxsew pattern I’m thinking of emulating for the bottom border - https://www.etsy.com/listing/947578875/
#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.
Newsreel: https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003075
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Ja he pogut anar a recollir el meu #VotesforWomen Ara necessito trobar el temps per jugar-lo.
#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote.
#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1913, suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and announces she will go on hunger strike.
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#OnThisDay, 10 Mar 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacks, with a meat cleaver, Velázquez's painting of Venus in the National Gallery in London in protest at the treatment of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Suffragette attacks on art were common enough for Punch to do a cartoon of it.
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#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest.
They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it.
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#OnThisDay, 7 Mar 2005, 400-600 women protest outside the Kuwaiti Parliament, demanding suffrage laws were enacted. The law was passed in May 2005.
Short thread!
#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1913, thousands of women marched through Washington DC in the Suffrage Parade. They are led by Inez Milholland, a lawyer on a white horse, with delegations from each state following.
The day before Ida B Wells and other Black suffragists were told they would be segregated, and had to march at the back. Wells said that she would march with Illinois or not at all.
#WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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Zur morgigen #BTW25 treten 4.506 Wahlbewerber*innen an. Darunter sind nur 1.422 Frauen. Wenn Ihr noch unentschieden seid, dann mag das vielleicht eine Hilfe sein. Wirklichen Wandel gibt es nur, wenn Frauen* endlich in den gleichen Machtpositionen sind wie Männer. Wir sehen ja u.a. an #Putin und #Trump (die Liste lässt sich endlos fortsetzen) was #toxischeMännlichkeit anrichtet. Daher #VotesForWomen ✖️ 💪
#Suffragettes
#OnThisDay, 16 Feb 1909, suffrage campaigner Muriel Matters took to the air above London, aiming to leaflet the state opening of Parliament from her dirigible.
Muriel had form: she had previously chained herself to the grille in Parliament's Ladies Gallery.
Listen to her recount the story here: http://balloonteam.net/montgolfier/on-this-day-the-suffragette-airship/
#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London whilst around 60 others are arrested outside.
The picture shows their release the next day.
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Mud, glorious mud!
#OnThisDay, 9 Feb 1907, around 3,000 people take part in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies' march through London, demanding the vote.
The weather was dreadful, hence its nickname of “the Mud March”.
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#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.
Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.
#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in elections.
All men over 21 were able to vote for the first time, but only women over 30 who met some property requirements could join them at the ballot box.
Full enfranchisement came in 1928.
Listen to the Sheffield Street Choirs sing 'Nana was a Suffragette': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KklWkhG748
#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 1945, women in Italy gained the right to vote in general as well as local elections.
Women voted in Italian general elections for the first time in 1946.
There's a marvellous photo over on getty showing an 82 year old woman being helped to vote for the first time in 1946.
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#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney.
She was denied, and left saying she "Protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."
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