#votesforwomen — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #votesforwomen, aggregated by home.social.
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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, and called for Māori women to have the vote and to be members of the parliament.
#AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#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
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#OnThisDay, 29 April 1945, French women vote for the first time.
Newsreel: https://www.ina.fr/video/AFE86003075
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #EuropeanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote.
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#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
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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.
#VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons
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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.
#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons
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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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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.
The picture shows their release the next day.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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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”.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum. One canton continued to deny women the vote until a court case in 1990.
Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928 which was complaining about the slow progress towards #VotesForWomen.
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#OnThisDay, 6 Feb 1918, the Representation of the People Act receives royal assent, allowing some women in the UK the right to vote in general 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
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#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 marvelous photo over on getty showing an 82 year old woman being helped to vote for the first time in 1946.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #ItalianHistory #Histodons
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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."
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picketing of the US White House, demanding votes for women.
They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.
In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen
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#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picketing of the US White House, demanding votes for women.
They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.
In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen
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#OnThisDay, 20 Dec 1893, around 4,000 women vote in the Māori seats in Aotearoa New Zealand. Photo is from 1908.
Until 1975, electors of Māori descent could only vote in one of the four Māori seats unless they had one Māori and one European parent.
More about the Māori seats here: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/setting-maori-seats
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 17 Dec 1905, over 22,000 people join demonstrations across Finland to demand #VotesForWomen.
The vote was won in 1906.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FinnishHistory #Histodons
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The results of the UK GE1918 weren't announced until 28 Dec but #OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, Constance Markievicz becomes the first woman elected to the UK parliament.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #IrishHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1918, some women across the UK vote legally in parliamentary elections for the first time. It's the culmination of decades of campaigning.
Only women over 30 who held some property rights were allowed to vote, whereas all men over 21 could vote.
It was another decade until women had equal voting rights as men.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1934, the Turkish Parliament voted to allow all women over 22 the vote, and women over 30 the right to stand in elections.
The first women were elected the following year.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 26 Nov 1867, Lily Maxwell voted in Chorlton-upon-Medlock’s Town Hall, Manchester.
It was one of the first recorded instances of a woman voting for an MP in the UK.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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CW: historical violence against women
#OnThisDay, 18 Nov 1910, 119 people are arrested whilst protesting for the right for women to vote in the UK.
The protest becomes known as Black Friday for the violence, including sexual assault, by the Met police and other men towards the 300 women protestors.
Calls for a public inquiry into the abuse were rejected by the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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A Midsummer Night's Darkness – A Miskatonic Repository Review [Call of Cthulhu]
#BoxcarNation #Review #ttrpg #CallofCthulhu #MiskatonicRepository #Suffrage #VotesforWomen @Chaosium_Inc @torylynn @dan_of_yhtill
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TW: Si vous ne détestez pas les fachos et le patriarcat, il est possible que les slogans en fond sonore de cette vidéo vous heurtent.
La tenue complète est une reconstitution inexacte que j'ai faite des années 1900 à 1910, excepté le chapeau sur lequel j'ai digressé.
La bande son est faite d'extraits enregistrés ça et là lors de manifs anticapitalistes-décolonialistes à Lausanne.
N'oubliez pas : avant, les féministes posaient des bombes 💣💥
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Allyship, the Fishguard 1908 edition.
Emmeline #Pankhurst made her first of several visits to Fishguard in July 1908, speaking in favour of women's suffrage and government dragging their feet over the issue. According to the newspaper coverage, she found a receptive audience.
Source for the newspaper article: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4251467/4251473/45/
Source for the postcard: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1953701#?xywh=606%2C-96%2C1110%2C815 -
Allyship, the Fishguard 1908 edition.
Emmeline #Pankhurst made her first of several visits to Fishguard in July 1908, speaking in favour of women's suffrage and government dragging their feet over the issue. According to the newspaper coverage, she found a receptive audience.
Source for the newspaper article: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4251467/4251473/45/
Source for the postcard: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1953701#?xywh=606%2C-96%2C1110%2C815 -
Allyship, the Fishguard 1908 edition.
Emmeline #Pankhurst made her first of several visits to Fishguard in July 1908, speaking in favour of women's suffrage and government dragging their feet over the issue. According to the newspaper coverage, she found a receptive audience.
Source for the newspaper article: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4251467/4251473/45/
Source for the postcard: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1953701#?xywh=606%2C-96%2C1110%2C815 -
Allyship, the Fishguard 1908 edition.
Emmeline #Pankhurst made her first of several visits to Fishguard in July 1908, speaking in favour of women's suffrage and government dragging their feet over the issue. According to the newspaper coverage, she found a receptive audience.
Source for the newspaper article: https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4251467/4251473/45/
Source for the postcard: https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1953701#?xywh=606%2C-96%2C1110%2C815 -
This is an excellent short video on suffrage in the UK. If you've got someone who can't be bothered to vote, show them this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0IAFIhVfA
#UniversalSuffrage #generalelection #votesForWomen #suffrage #elections #UKpol #UKhistory #Suffragettes #Suffragists
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#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC whilst protesting the force-feeding of suffragists in prison.
The “silent sentinels” were the first political group to picket the White House. From January 1917 to June 1919, over 2,000 women took turns at the protest. Around 500 were arrested in total, with 168 sent to prison.
#Suffragists #VotesForWomen #Histodons #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory
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History is full of battles. Not all of them are wars. Andrew Lynch sits down with Fort Circle Games' excellent Votes for Women in this Meeple Mountain review.
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#OnThisDay, 14 Nov 1917, US suffragists held at the Occoquan Workhouse are assaulted by the guards, at the order of the supervisor. The “Night of Terror” galvanises support for the women.
In March 1918, the DC Court of Appeals declares that the suffragist arrests had been unconstitutional.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory #Histodons
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CW: reported historical violence against women
#OnThisDay, 10 Nov 1917, 41 suffragists are arrested outside the White House in Washington DC.
This was the largest number of women arrested on the same day. They were charged with “blocking traffic” on the wide pavement of Pennsylvania Avenue.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.
Anthony is subsequently arrested and put on trial. She is found guilty, but refuses to pay the fine. The judge decides not to jail her.
Nine of the voters were initially reported as a "minor topic".
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons #VotesForWomen
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#OnThisDay, 25 Oct 1947, women in Malta vote for the first time. Almost 35,000 women go to the polls.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #MalteseHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 23 Oct 1915, 20,000+ women march in a 5 mile long parade through New York City, USA, demanding the right to vote.
There is no record of African-American women being invited to join the march.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 20 Oct 1917, US suffragist Alice Paul is arrested at the silent sentinels picket of the White House.
Two days later she is sentenced to 7 months in the notorious Occoquan workhouse. At the start of November, Paul and fellow suffrage campaigner Rose Winslow go on hunger strike and are force fed. A week after that, Paul is sent to the psychiatric ward in an attempt to discredit her.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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🎺 People of #Stroud and associated environs! 🎺
On Sat 11th Feb (4 weeks today) we’re coming to talk about our suffragette graphic novel, No Surrender!
Here’s a link to book, thank you to the Yellow Lighted Bookshop for arranging it 📚
#Bookshop #GraphicNovel @bookstodon #Bookstodon #TalkingBooks #Author #writer #Illustrator #Illustration #Suffragette #VotesForWomen
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🎺 People of #Stroud and associated environs! 🎺
On Sat 11th Feb (4 weeks today) we’re coming to talk about our suffragette graphic novel, No Surrender!
Here’s a link to book, thank you to the Yellow Lighted Bookshop for arranging it 📚
#Bookshop #GraphicNovel @bookstodon #Bookstodon #TalkingBooks #Author #writer #Illustrator #Illustration #Suffragette #VotesForWomen
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🎺 People of #Stroud and associated environs! 🎺
On Sat 11th Feb (4 weeks today) we’re coming to talk about our suffragette graphic novel, No Surrender!
Here’s a link to book, thank you to the Yellow Lighted Bookshop for arranging it 📚
#Bookshop #GraphicNovel @bookstodon #Bookstodon #TalkingBooks #Author #writer #Illustrator #Illustration #Suffragette #VotesForWomen
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🎺 People of #Stroud and associated environs! 🎺
On Sat 11th Feb (4 weeks today) we’re coming to talk about our suffragette graphic novel, No Surrender!
Here’s a link to book, thank you to the Yellow Lighted Bookshop for arranging it 📚
#Bookshop #GraphicNovel @bookstodon #Bookstodon #TalkingBooks #Author #writer #Illustrator #Illustration #Suffragette #VotesForWomen
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🎺 People of #Stroud and associated environs! 🎺
On Sat 11th Feb (4 weeks today) we’re coming to talk about our suffragette graphic novel, No Surrender!
Here’s a link to book, thank you to the Yellow Lighted Bookshop for arranging it 📚
#Bookshop #GraphicNovel @bookstodon #Bookstodon #TalkingBooks #Author #writer #Illustrator #Illustration #Suffragette #VotesForWomen
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#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.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #ItalianHistory #Histodons
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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.
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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.
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#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1934, the Turkish Parliament voted to allow all women over 22 the vote, and women over 30 the right to stand in elections.
The first women were elected the following year.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1893, Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia spoke at the Kotahitanga (Māori parliament) in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She was the first woman to address the Kotahitanga, and called for Māori women to have the vote and to be members of the parliament.
#AotearoaHistory #NZHistory #VotesForWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 5 July 1922, women vote in a Dutch general election for the first time.
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #VotesForWomen #DutchHistory
#WaybackWednesday