#OnThisDay, 22 Nov 1910, the Pankhursts led around 200 suffragettes in a march on 10 Downing Street in London, UK. 159 women and 3 men are arrested.

No image, so here's a cartoon.

Some women gained the vote in 1918: the rest had to wait until 1928 for equal voting rights with men.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 14 Nov 1960, Ruby Bridges goes to school.

She is the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz school in Louisiana, USA. It is a symbolic act, breaking the segregation of education in the state.

Her 2022 autobiographical picture book, I Am Ruby Bridges, is in Scholastic’s ‘diverse’ collection, meaning school librarians can opt out of including them in school book fairs.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

"The moment of discovery" does not always exist: the scientist's work is too tenuous, too divided, for the certainty of success to crackle out suddenly in the midst of his laborious toil like a stroke of lightening, dazzling him by its fire.

Marie Curie was born #OTD in 1867.

#physics #WomenInSTEM

#OTD in 1797.

Jane Austen's father writes to London bookseller Thomas Cadell to ask if he is interested in seeing the manuscript of Jane's recently completed novel First Impressions (later re-titled Pride and Prejudice); Cadell declines.

gutenberg.org/ebooks/42671

#books #literature

Japanese artist and printmaker Hokusai was born #OTD in 1760.

He is best known for the woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai

#art #painting #woodblockprinting

#OTD in 1726.

The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre is published. Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it".

gutenberg.org/ebooks/17157

#books #literature