Jan Hicks · @dustystacks
104 followers · 506 posts · Server zirk.us

has just launched! If you live in or near check out the programme of events we've put together for 8-17 September (and a few beyond). Some of them are part of the .
From the who fought in the to , from a of the industry and Oldham's links with to a with , there's something for everyone.
oldham.gov.uk/histories_festiv

#oldhamhistoriesfestival #oldham #hheritageopendays #internationalbrigaders #spanishcivilwar #suffragist #damemarjorylees #history #curry #japan #folklore #writersworkshop #sophieparkes

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Gumbo Funk · @gumbofunk
33 followers · 121 posts · Server mstdn.party
Gumbo Funk · @gumbofunk
33 followers · 120 posts · Server mstdn.party
Jennifer Ebeling · @GardenerPodcast
1243 followers · 832 posts · Server mindly.social

11, 1856
Eliza Calvert Hall, American & , is born.

She wrote,

"To me, as a child, men & women fell into 2 great divisions:
Those who had & those who had only houses.

To the fancy of childhood, a was paradise... w/ green leaves & blue sky overhead, & ;

...while those others, dispossessed of life's springs, summers, & autumns, appeared darkly entombed in shops & parlors where the year might as well have been a perpetual .

#february #otd #writer #suffragist #gardens #garden #blossoms #winter

Last updated 2 years ago

This is Florence Marsh and her children. I currently live in what was her home in New Philadelphia, Ohio. She was a Suffrage leader, public health and education advocate, a supporter of immigrant rights, a mother, a wife, a leader in her church, and an all around badass. @histodons

#suffragist #suffrage #womenshistory #ohiohistory #activism #1900s

Last updated 2 years ago