Woman of the Day Madge Easton Anderson born OTD 1896 in Glasgow, the first woman to work professionally as a lawyer in the UK. It took an appeal to the Court of Session before this highly qualified woman was permitted to sit her final Law Agent exam on the same basis as men

'I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.'

- literature laureate Wisława Szymborska.

What book are you reading right now?

#WorldBookDay

This is a book for anyone who loves language, and for feminists who want to look to the past in order to move forward.

'A gem of a book' Kate Mosse

Mother Tongue by Jenni Nuttall is out in paperback 2nd May, pre-order your copy now: brnw.ch/21wJ6mg

Join us tomorrow morning at 8am BST for the announcement of the 2024 #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist!

Which books would you like to see in the shortlist stack?

'I think the most fun and mysterious thing is creating characters.'

Watch author Olga Tokarczuk speak about her process of creating characters and the special relationship that creates between them.

#WorldBookDay #WorldBookAndCopyrightDay

Woman of the Day soldier Hannah Snell born OTD 1723 in Worcester who disguised herself as a man and joined the 6th Regiment of Foot. She took part in the capture of Pondicherry and fought in the Battle of Devicotta during the War of Austrian Succession.

Neighbours in Worcester

“It is imperfection — not perfection — that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain.' Rita Levi-Montalcini ForMemRS and Nobel Prize winning neurobiologist, was born #OnThisDay in 1909. bit.ly/2oWWPMJ

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Sheila Scott UK aviator broke over 100 aviation records w' long-distance flight endeavours, incl 1971 34K mile 'world & a half' flight as 1st person to fly over North Pole in small aircraft. Founder/1st governor of UK The Ninety-Nines, Inc.® d. #OTD 22 Apr 1922 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Sc…

Woman of the Day suffragist Emily Davies born OTD 1830 in Southampton, founder of Girton College, Cambridge, a lifelong campaigner for equal rights for women and one of the first women to address a Royal Commission as an expert witness.

Her father had traditional views about

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'I came to understand that when the environment is destroyed, plundered or mismanaged, we undermine our quality of life and that of future generations.'

- Wangari Maathai in her #NobelPeacePrize lecture given twenty years ago.

Read more: bit.ly/3VCSKhc

#EarthDay

On view at the Getty now through July 21 is the first North American show in more than 30 years focusing solely on the work of Camille Claudel, which includes roughly 60 pieces. artnews.com/art-news/news/…

Susan Lustig and Doreen Wilkinson were two women in intelligence, who served discreetly at Latimer House throughout World War II.

I am thrilled to announce that the paperback version of ‘Women in Intelligence’ is now available to pre-order: amzn.to/4d3EO5Z

This is Senior Sister Julie Anne MacDonald receiving a beautiful guard of honour after 42 years of service to the NHS.

Thanks for everything, Julie Anne.

Please RT for her.

The UK's first professional women's gaming tournament of its kind started this weekend.

Players are competing at London's Red Bull Gaming Sphere for a prize pool of £15,000.

Read more: trib.al/rdGRkjl

London Marathon 2024 results: Peres Jepchirchir breaks women's only world record bbc.in/3UqAfvd

Woman of the Day militant suffragette Charlotte Marsh of Newcastle-on-Tyne died OTD 1961, aged 74. Sanitary inspector (public health inspector), chauffeur and mechanic during WW1 to Prime Minister David Lloyd George, serial lawbreaker, she was one of the first women to be

“We play ping-pong with ideas. In this way you can go from a wide crazy idea to something that is possible to do.”

- May-Britt Moser's description of her and her collaborators' creative process.

How would you explain a creative process?

#WorldCreativityDay