I'm not photogentic at all but I love this T-shirt Tom made for me for my upcoming book! 😀

Get your orders in now! ;p

#qotd Do you have any bookish T-shirts?

#bookMerch #books #booksofMastodon #bookstodon #somerset #unsungWomenInSomerset #womenInHistory

This is a list of all the Somerset place names mentioned in my upcoming book! Do you know any of them or have a favourite name from them?

#somerset #westCountry #books #author #history #localHistory #womenInHistory #historical #histodon

#OnThisDay in 1797, Mary Shelley was born!

The mother of science fiction, she wrote some of #Frankenstein whilst living in #Bath!

I really want to go to the House of Mary Shelley in Bath one day!!

If I had space, she'd be in my upcoming book about women in Somerset through the ages.

#maryShelley #horror #scifi #30august #somerset #womenInHistory #histodon #writer #author

Snippet from my upcoming book about women in Somerset through the ages! It's actually a direct quote from one of the women's journals! And yes it's THAT Wilberforce!!

"In the month of August 1789, Providence directed Mr Wilberforce and his sister to spend a few days at Cowslip Green."

#qotd What's a quote from a book you've read that you love?

#wip #somerset #upcomingBook #womenInHistory #Wilberforce #history #histfic #author

Sources: oxforddnb.com, encyclopedia.com, womensprinthistoryproject.com

#qotd Do you have a favourite writer from centuries gone by?

#somerset #wells #abolition #prisonReform #historian #womenInHistory #womenWriters #writer #georgian #westCamel​

Also, when #WorldWar2 broke out in 1939, the Parish Rooms was taken over by the War Department and used as a feeding place for school dinners, pies for agricultural labourers and other essential workers, air raid wardens, the home guard and so on.

#histodon #history #womenInHistory #plaque #memorial

Sources:
https://parishroomssomerton.weebly.com/history.html https://somertontowncouncil.gov.uk/charities/

History

In 1895 Frances Lady Smith died. She was a member of the Pinney family and had spent much of her life helping the poor in Somerton through various charities. A fund was started to erect a suitable...

^{THE PARISH ROOMS, SOMERTON}

This building has the only contemporary images of two really important historical women: Inés Huaylas (or Quispe Sisa) and her daughter, Francisca Pizarro! #restoration #inca #womeninhistory

This is an old article but I can't see any update so perhaps it's still in need of restoration.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/plea-to-restore-faded-splendour-of-palacio-de-la-conquista-lmcr2m83c

Plea to restore faded splendour of Palacio de la Conquista

Descendants of the conquistador who plundered Peru are struggling to save one of Spain’s finest palaces, which was built in his honour and is in danger of going to ruin.

^{Isambard Wilkinson (The Times)}

This building has the only contemporary images of two really important historical women: Ines Huaylas (or Quispe Sisa) and her daughter, Francisca Pizarro! #restoration #inca #womeninhistory

This is an old article but I can't see any update so perhaps it's still in need of restoration.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/plea-to-restore-faded-splendour-of-palacio-de-la-conquista-lmcr2m83c

Plea to restore faded splendour of Palacio de la Conquista

Descendants of the conquistador who plundered Peru are struggling to save one of Spain’s finest palaces, which was built in his honour and is in danger of going to ruin.

^{Isambard Wilkinson (The Times)}

#OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Ciller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She is the first woman to hold the post.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WomenInPolitics #TurkishHistory

#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

Adela Breton was a trailblazing archaeological artist. She grew up in #Bath and died 100 years ago yesterday (13th June 1923).

Her meticulous copies of the wall paintings at #ChichenItza & #Teotihuacan in #Mexico, are the only full record of what was there at the time.

She will feature in my book Intrepid Women in Somerset, coming soon!

#somerset #archaeology #womenInHistory

#AmQuerying A book of meticulously researched stories plus historical notes about real #women with diverse backgrounds, beliefs cultures etc. who lived, loved & broke stereotypes in #Somerset from pre-Roman times to 20th century.

#LocalHistory #writer #querying #womenInHistory #author

On this day, (Friday) June 2 in 1907 Dorothy West was born. She was an American storyteller and short story writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her 1948 novel The Living Is Easy, as well as many other short stories and essays.

#WomenInSTEM #STEM #WomenInHistory #ExtraordinaryWomen #WomenInCulture #HistSTM #Histodon

Got excited when the book I'm reading mentioned #Martock in Somerset!

Kudos to the author for great research. Margaret Beaufort inherited the manor house there.

(The Beaufort Woman by Judith Arnopp)

I'm close to finishing my book about women in Somerset through the ages!

#somerset #margaretBeaufort #bristol #tudors #womenInHistory

On #23May 482 years ago, an Inca princess was watching her mixed-race son get baptised...

Check out Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire to find out more. Link in bio ;)

#mixedrace #incas #onThisDay #womenInHistory #bookstodon #southAmerica

#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first woman of colour to be certified as a lawyer.

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #AmericanHistory

Today I stumbled upon this woman:
Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger
born in West Camel, Somerset, in 1775
and spent her first years of life in Wells
but she lived mainly elsewhere in England.
She was a biographer, poet and feminist.
(http://womensprinthistoryproject.com/person/631)

#history #womensprinthistory #histodon #womeninhistory #Wells #somerset #womenwriters

Not much is known about Eadburh prior to her marriage to Beorhtric in 789, because she is a woman in history, so of course there isn’t. However, what we do know is that once the two were married, Eadburh took one look at her Super Weenie Hut Jr. of a husband and said “No, fuck this, actually I’m going to rule Wessex myself.”

The comment at the bottom of this photo nearly made me spit out my coffee

#womeninhistory #nussex #DirtbagsThroughTheAges

https://open.substack.com/pub/rapscallison/p/lord-have-mercian?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android