#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 six weeks earlier. Many of the marchers faced abuse and assault along the way.

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

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WaybackWednesday

#OnThisDay, 24 July 1983, women from the Greenham Peace Camp hold a ‘die-in’ in front of politicians, public and military hardware buyers at the International Air Tattoo at the base. They pretend to be dead.

Photo illustrates some Greenham women holding a die-in elsewhere in England, and is taken from Alison Dowell’s archive at Greenham Women Everywhere:
https://greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/portfolio-items/alison-dowells-archive/

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory

J. Draper London on TikTok

https://www.tiktok.com/@jdraperlondon/video/7256776558910639386?_t=8e4bSkhFtHf&_r=1

>#london #didyouknow #learnontiktok #londonhistory #britishhistory #history

#OnThisDay, 28 June 1838, Victoria was crowned as Queen of Great Britain. She was 18 years old, and reigned for 63 years.

Her reign saw a huge expansion of the British Empire.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #RegnantQueens #BritishHistory

#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.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #GreenhamWomen #BritishHistory

#OnThisDay, 11 Jun 1987, Diane Abbott is elected to the British Parliament. She is the first Black woman to become an MP.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory

#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1968, 187 women working at the Ford car factory in Dagenham, UK, go on strike demanding recognition as skilled workers.

They are led by Rosie Boland and Lil O'Callaghan, and after three weeks win concessions after production had to be shut down. The strike was one of the triggers for the Equal Pay Act 1970 that made it illegal to pay women and men differently if they are doing the same job.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory #MadeInDagenham

#OnThisDay, 7 Jun 1929, Margaret Bondfield becomes Minister of Labour in the UK government. She is the first woman to hold a British Cabinet post.

[photo (c) National Portrait Gallery London]

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WomenInPolitics #BritishHistory

#OnThisDay, 4 Jun 1913, British suffragette Emily Davison steps in front of the King's horse at the Epson Derby: she dies four days later.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory

#OnThisDay, 2 Jun 1953, Queen Elizabeth II is crowned, a year after ascending the throne of Britain and the Commonwealth. She died in 2022: her 70 year reign was the longest of any British monarch, and the longest verified reign of a woman in the world.

#WomenInHistory #BritishHistory #RegnantWomen

"There can be no doubt that we are witnessing another historic advance in the struggle against discrimination in our society, this time against discrimination on grounds of sex."

#OnThisDay, 29 May 1970, the Equal Pay Act receives Royal Assent in the UK. It's seen as the lasting legacy of Barbara Castle MP, and means men and women doing the same job should receive the same pay.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #EqualPay #BritishHistory

#OnThisDay, 24 May 1976, at least 400 women walk out on strike at the Trica factory in London, demanding equal pay with their male colleagues. Around 100 men come out on strike in support of the women.

The strike lasts 21 weeks before the American owners of the factory agree to all demands.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory #TradeUnionHistory @workingclasshistory

#OnThisDay, 23 May 1988, four women storm the BBC news studio whilst the news is live on air, protesting the introduction of Section 28. Section 28 banned the “promotion of homosexuality” by local government in the UK, and was intended to stop LGBT+ campaigns for equal rights.

It was not repealed until 2003.

Watch footage from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZdpNjJakiI&ab_channel=BBCStories

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #LGBTHistory #BritishHistory

The Way It Was

paduasoy posted "English Historical Fiction Authors," a group blog that has been going since 2011, where researchers and novelists post about British history. "There are posts about wool and war, Schools of Gardening for Ladies, beds and bugs, aspirin, theatrical censorship, magazines, tours of Ruthin and Snowdon, slipcoat cheese and posset, subversive fairy tales, and The Learned Pig," and more fascinating linked selections. Lovely.

https://www.metafilter.com/199324/for-the-pig-was-proud-of-his-dress

#blog #BritishHistory #details #England #facts #GreatBritain #history #information #lore #past #trivia

"Roasting an ox at Tideswell, Derbyshire, June 1953" as part of the Coronation celebrations for QE2. Form the Guardian article here: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2023/may/05/guardian-archive-coronation-preparations-in-1937-and-1953-in-pictures

I AM NOW OBSESSED WITH THE STRIPED COAT WORN BY THE GENTLEMAN 2nd FROM THE LEFT but honestly every single thing about this photo is glorious

#Fashion #Men #Coronation #BBQ #WorkWear #BritishHistory

#OnThisDay, 4 May 1979, Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the UK for the first time. She was the first woman to become Prime Minister, and was re-elected twice.

As PM she oversaw the privatisation of state-owned utility companies and the closure of the British mining industry.

#WomenInHistory #WomenInPolitics #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd is elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She's the first woman Speaker. A working class girl, Betty was on a chorus line before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She then sat in the House of Lords until her death. Watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b-EETNFIzrY&t=75s

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory

#tv tonight: ep 4 of series 3 of A History of Britain with Simon Schama (orig aired 18/6/02, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074n44 ).

Telling the story of the first ⅔ of the 20th Century by juxtaposing the lives and politics of Winston Churchill and Eric Blair (aka George Orwell). Drawing attention to Churchill's feet of clay whilst still celebrating what he did do right when it counted.

And drawing out the similarities between the two men, despite their multitude of differences.

#history #BritishHistory

#tv tonight: episode 4 of Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts (aired 15/4/23, https://www.channel4.com/programmes/fortress-britain-with-alice-roberts/on-demand/74745-004 ).

Having done three invasions that failed to materialise the series finished out with The One That Did™, the Last One That Did™ – the Norman Conquest. Not the initial battle but the slow grind of consolidating power afterwards: the debacle of the coronation, the Harrying of the North, Hereward the Wake etc.

#BritishHistory #FortressBritain #NormanConquest #history

#tv tonight: episode 3 of series 3 of A History of Britain with Simon Schama (orig aired 11/6/02, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074n3l ).

Overlapping in time with the previous episode, Victorian again but this time "The Empire of Good Intentions" as the episode title put it. And as we all know that's how you get to hell, as the Irish Potato Famine & the Indian Rebellion of 1857 demonstrated.

And worshipping the free market means the little people starve while the elite look away.

#BritishHistory #history