CarveHerName,
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#OnThisDay, 18 May 1991, cosmonaut Helen Sharman becomes the first British person in space.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory

sarahijackson,
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@CarveHerName I remember this! I was 9, she seemed like a superhero to me 👩🏻‍🚀

CarveHerName,
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@sarahijackson I was a bit older, but likewise. I imagine the great breeze caused by British women sighing “Helen Sharman” when Tim Peake went into space and got called the first British astronaut. ^Mags

sarahijackson,
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@CarveHerName absolutely! gah

CarveHerName,
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@sarahijackson this is why sometimes we get a tad grumpy. All we’re doing is posting nuggets to stop people saying, as a school librarian once did to us, “there’s no women in history books because women didn’t do much”. And then we see the media, in our own lifetime, erase women from history.

Gah, indeed.

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