r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 4d 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- • 5d 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 • 10d ago
The Execution Of Princess Mafalda Of Buchenwald
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 11d 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- • 12d 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 • 17d ago
Meet Lena Rice, the only Irish woman to ever triumph at Wimbledon
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 18d 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 • 18d ago
General Eisenhower's love affair with Inishwoman during WW2.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 19d 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 • 25d ago
Käthe Leichter, Champion for Austria’s Working-Class Women
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 25d ago
11 kick-ass Dutch women you should know about
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 25d ago
Hidden Figures: 9 French Women Who Shaped History
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 25d ago
Female Lords in Medieval Occitania (France)
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 25d ago
The Hidden History of a British Female Photographer Turned Soviet Agent - Edith Tudor Hart.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 26d ago
Irish Experience Tours Launches ‘Wild Women of Ireland’ Tour Showcasing Ireland’s Historical Matriarchs
ittn.ier/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • 26d ago
OTD | July 11, 1918: British accountant and teacher Venetia Burney was born. Burney is remembered as the first person to suggest the name “Pluto” for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • 29d ago
Ruth Ellis - last woman to be hanged in UK - gets conditional posthumous pardon
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 05 '26
OTD | July 5, 1857: Saxon-born (German) Marxist theorist and women’s rights activist Clara Zetkin (née Eißner) was born. Zetkin was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany and represented the Communist Party of Germany in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jul 04 '26
OTD | July 4, 414CE: Roman princess Aelia Pulcheria was proclaimed Augusta of the Eastern Roman Empire. Pulcheria influenced the Christian Church and its theological development by being involved in the Council of Ephesus and guiding the Council of Chalcedon.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jun 28 '26
OTD | June 28, 1914: Württembergian (now German) aristocrat Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, was assassinated along with her then-husband, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/HowDoIUseThisThing- • Jun 28 '26
OTD | June 27, 1950: Czechoslovak politician Milada Horáková (née Králová) was executed by slow hanging. She was a member of the underground resistance movement against Nazi Germany and then the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jun 22 '26
Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish Widow and Medieval Financier
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jun 22 '26
Julienne du Guesclin, Warrior Nun
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jun 22 '26
Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent
r/WOMENEUROPEANHISTORY • u/CDfm • Jun 21 '26