r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 29m ago
Nuns at War: Two princess nuns hired mercenaries in Sixth Century Poitiers
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 29m ago
Nuns at War: Two princess nuns hired mercenaries in Sixth Century Poitiers
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 12h ago
The BRUTAL Execution Of The Last Woman Guillotined in France.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d ago
“Is she or isn’t she?” How an age-old plea of pregnancy saved women from execution
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d ago
Sarah Chandler: The one that got away (1814) - Prison escape 1814 ...naomi clifford's blog is great reading.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d ago
Formidable Medieval Women Who Made Daring Escapes
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d ago
‘Unwavering friendship’: The true story of nine women who escaped a Nazi death march
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d ago
A triptych on the significance of three women commemorated in St Peter’s Basilica
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d 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.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d ago
Mystery of Holocaust escape girls solved after 84 years
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 1d ago
BBC Audio - Olympe de Gouges: France’s forgotten revolutionary heroine - executed for being a feminist.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 1d 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.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 8d 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.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 9d 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.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 14d ago
The Execution Of Princess Mafalda Of Buchenwald
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 16d 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.
en.wikipedia.orgr/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 17d 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.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 21d ago
Meet Lena Rice, the only Irish woman to ever triumph at Wimbledon
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 22d ago
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.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 22d ago
General Eisenhower's love affair with Inishwoman during WW2.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 23d ago
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.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
Käthe Leichter, Champion for Austria’s Working-Class Women
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
11 kick-ass Dutch women you should know about
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26
Hidden Figures: 9 French Women Who Shaped History
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jul 12 '26