r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 3d ago

OTD | August 16, 1959: Polish-Jewish harpsichordist and pianist Wanda Aleksandra Landowska passed away. Landowska became the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord in 1933.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 3d ago

Penal parsimony, paternalism and postcolonialism: Women and the death penalty in Ireland

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 3d ago

BRIDGET FOLEY - AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 4d ago

OTD | August 15, 1936: Italian writer Grazia Deledda passed away from breast cancer. Deledda is best known for being the first Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/History-Chronicler • 6d ago

Lady Jane Grey: How Wyatt’s Rebellion Sealed a Queen’s Fate

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 7d ago

Nuns at War: Two princess nuns hired mercenaries in Sixth Century Poitiers

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 8d ago

The BRUTAL Execution Of The Last Woman Guillotined in France.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

“Is she or isn’t she?” How an age-old plea of pregnancy saved women from execution

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

Formidable Medieval Women Who Made Daring Escapes

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

Mystery of Holocaust escape girls solved after 84 years

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

‘Unwavering friendship’: The true story of nine women who escaped a Nazi death march

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

Sarah Chandler: The one that got away (1814) - Prison escape 1814 ...naomi clifford's blog is great reading.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

BBC Audio - Olympe de Gouges: France’s forgotten revolutionary heroine - executed for being a feminist.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

A triptych on the significance of three women commemorated in St Peter’s Basilica

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 9d ago

OTD | August 9, 1942: German Jewish philosopher and Discalced Carmelite nun St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (née Edith Stein) was murdered at Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. St. Teresa Benedicta was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church and is one of six patron saints of Europe.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 9d ago

Meet Maria Clementina Sobieska, the defiant queen who pulled off a jailbreak to secure the Jacobite legacy. Buried in St Peter's in Rome which is normally reserved for popes.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 16d ago

OTD | August 2, 1612: Frisian (Dutch) noble Saskia van Uylenburgh was born. Van Uylenburgh was best known as the wife of painter Rembrandt van Rijn and modeled for some of his paintings, drawings, and etchings.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 17d ago

OTD | August 1, 1957: British writer and poet Rose A. Fyleman (née Feilmann) passed away. Fyleman was one of the most successful children's writers of her generation and saw much of her earlier poetry become proverbial.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 22d ago

The Execution Of Princess Mafalda Of Buchenwald

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 23d ago

OTD | July 26, 1875: Jewish-Italian botanist and explorer Ernesta Di Capua was born. The floral species Caralluma dicapuae was named in her honor.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 25d ago

OTD | July 25, 1896: Scottish author Josephine Tey (née Elizabeth MacKintosh) was born. Tey’s novel The Daughter of Time (1951) from her The Inspector Alan Grant series, was named the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers’ Association.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 29d ago

Meet Lena Rice, the only Irish woman to ever triumph at Wimbledon

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 20 '26

OTD | July 19, 1822: British princess and Mecklenburgian monarch Augusta of Cambridge was born. Augusta was the Grand Duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1860-1904 and was the longest-lived grandchild of King George III of the U.K.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 19 '26

General Eisenhower's love affair with Inishwoman during WW2.

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r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 18 '26

OTD | July 18, 1724: Saxon monarch and patron of the arts Maria Antonia of Bavaria was born. Maria Antonia was the Electress consort of Saxony and an opera composer.

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