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This election is exhausting but women are vital to democracy in Scotland #TuesdayMotivation So - THREAD of historical politicos to keep us going Agnes Dollan a suffragette activist Jailed in

Today: a new THREADof sheroes: women who disappeared into their menfolk. 1st Dorothy Livesey Reynolds, a key geologist who worked w/ her husband at Edinburgh Uni but wasn't paid as

This time next week I'll be chatting to @ScotSuffragette here: https://www.facebook.com/ProtestsandSuffragettes & to get us in the mood a THREADof Scots suffragettes. My favies. Here's Inverness lass Marion Wallace Dunlop,

Time for a THREAD of brave YOUNG sheroes from Scottish history. 1st, Lady Grisell Baillie who smuggled messages to her father's friend, religious free thinker, Robert Baillie, when he was

In the wake of comments re JKR being the 1st successful female author let's be clear she was not even the 1st successful SCOTTISH female author. A THREAD Hugely popular

We've a long Scottish tradition of litigious women.Thread: Chrystal MacMillan 1st female science grad @ Ed Uni & the 1st woman to plead a case in the Lords when the

We're all into cooking now. So: THREADof amazing Scottish foremothers who are Food Icons. Businesswoman Ethelreda Baxter opened the 1st Baxter's tinned food factory in 1916 expanding her in-laws' grocery

So #WomeninScience.. who's up for a thread of our Scottish foremothers who were STEM sheroes? 1st up let's have engineer Dorothee Pullinger who oversaw munitions factories during WWI & went

Happy 700th to the Declaration of Arbroath, #Arbroath700 . It was a male concern but for #MondayMotivaton here's a THREAD of cracking 14th century lasses 1st, resistance leader, Christina Bruce

#NHSLouisaJordan is trending but Louisa was only one of many brilliant Scottish medical women who contributed during WWI. So a THREAD of my favies Flora Masson was awarded a Royal

Need inspiration? Today a THREAD of our ordinary foremothers who shone in a crisis. This lass, Jane Whyte, saved 15 ppl's lives by diving into the sea to secure a

Time for a THREAD of amazing Scottish island women to brighten #ThursdayMorning. 1st, Bessie Williamson, the only woman to own & manage a whisky distillery in the 20th century: Laphroaig