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#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).

Hat tip to the East End Women's Museum for this one! https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/women-at-the-battle-of-cable-street

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Women at the Battle of Cable Street — East End Women's Museum

Today is the 80th anniversary of the 'Battle of Cable Street', one of the East End's proudest moments. The Battle of Cable Street On 4 October 1936, Oswald Mosley's fascist Blackshirts attempted to march from Tower Hill, through Aldgate and Shadwell, a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood at that ti

A woman is being frogmarched along cobbles by two policemen, with another apparently gesturing to her to calm down.

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 weeks ago

Hat tip to the East End Women's Museum for this one! https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/women-at-the-battle-of-cable-street

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East End Women's Museum

Women at the Battle of Cable Street — East End Women's Museum

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 months ago

#OnThisDay, 2 Aug 1855, Elizabeth Ann Holman goes on trial in Plymouth, UK, for being a suspicious person because she was discovered to be a woman disguised as a man. The case is dismissed. As is a second charge against her for wearing trousers in 1858.

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newspaper cutting of the case detailing that she was charged for being a suspicious person. The highlighted text notes that she wore male attire "so that she could earn much higher wages as a man than she could have done otherwise".

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 months ago

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 months ago

#OnThisDay, 26 July 1913, around 50,000 people - mostly women - rally in Hyde Park, London as part of campaigning for votes for women in Britain.

Some of the marchers had set out from Cornwall or Scotland six weeks earlier. Many of them had faced abuse and assault along the way.

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-1913-suffrage-pilgrimage-peaceful-protest-and-local-disorder/

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Millicent Fawcett addressing the crowd at Hyde Park. The banner behind her highlights that her National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies are "law abiding suffragists". All the women on the speaking platform are white.

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 months ago

#OnThisDay, 26 July 1913, around 50,000 people - mostly women - rally in Hyde Park, London as part of campaigning for votes for women in Britain.

Some of the marchers had set out from Cornwall or Scotland six weeks earlier. Many of them had faced abuse and assault along the way.

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-1913-suffrage-pilgrimage-peaceful-protest-and-local-disorder/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 4 months ago

#OnThisDay, 25 June 1983, around 2,000 women create a 4.5mile rainbow snake to encircle the Greenham Common camp in England, protesting the use of the airbase to house US nuclear weapons.

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