Women's History

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Badass Beryl Swain first woman to compete solo in a TT race.

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Lasting Impressions: The Ladies of Llangollen Portraits at Audley End | English Heritage (www.english-heritage.org.uk)

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Military Great bunch of fellers: the heroic wartime lumberjills – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Art and Music Searching for Augusta Savage American Masters PBS Documentary (youtu.be)

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Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know (www.youtube.com)

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Science and Invention The Forgotten Life of Einstein’s First Wife (getpocket.com)

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Science and Invention Astronomer Vera Rubin’s Federal Bio Altered to Omit DEI Efforts in Science — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)

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Art and Music Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2021: “More perfect and excellent than men”: The Women Artists of Bologna (www.nga.gov)

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Carol Downer, Feminist Leader in Women’s Health, Dies at 91 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Literature and Writing Hrotsvitha the first female writer from the Germanosphere, the first female historian, the first person since the Fall of the Roman Empire to write theatrical pieces in the Latin West, and the first German female poet...

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Ancient History Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology (theconversation.com)

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Literature and Writing “To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism — The Public Domain Review (publicdomainreview.org)

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Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive — The Public Domain Review (publicdomainreview.org)

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First How a Monument to Women Finally Won a Place on the National Mall - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Books Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Ancient History Celtic Women Ruled Iron Age Britain, 2,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals | IFLScience (www.iflscience.com)

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Art and Music 2025 Museum Exhibitions Featuring Historic Women Artists (artherstory.net)

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Work and Economics The history of women cyclists – an uphill climb to equality (theconversation.com)

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Science and Invention Sister Mary Kenneth Keller (PhD, 1965): The first PhD in computer science in the US – Computer Sciences – UW–Madison (www.cs.wisc.edu)

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Athletics Ancient female athletes!

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Education Just bought several women's biographies

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Art and Music Medieval women exhibition challenges stereotypes of religious sisters | Global Sisters Report (www.globalsistersreport.org)

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Social media ‘soft girls’ depend on men for money – but Sweden once used state ‘influencers’ to urge women to get jobs (theconversation.com)

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From tuxedos to tattoos, Eleanor Medhurst’s Unsuitable traces a hidden history of lesbian fashion (theconversation.com)

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Ancient History 'Vulva stone' and coin jewelry among remarkable treasures discovered at Viking burial site in Norway | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

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