In Part 471,776 of “Men Who Don’t Listen to Their Wives”, today’s Woman of the Day writer and social reformer Abigail Smith of Massachusetts, a valuable eyewitness during the War of Independence, sent a letter to her husband OTD in 1776 containing first class advice. Did he

There is no Woman of the Day post today but if there was, it would be artist Élisabeth Vigée le Brun of Paris who died OTD in 1842. Why? Well, take a good look at this self-portrait of herself with her little girl. Another was of two little sisters. Both were considered shocking.

There is no Woman of the Day today but if there was, it would be psychologist and poet Eileen O’Shaughnessy of South Shields who died OTD in 1945. A volunteer during the Spanish Civil War, her quick-thinking saved her husband’s life - but you’d never know that if you only

Woman of the Day Milicent Bagot, the first woman to reach the rank of Assistant Director of MI5, born OTD in 1907 in London, described as “a walking reference library on international communism” was instrumental to the West’s understanding of the threat posed by the Cold War.

Only six countries have nuclear submarines: the UK, USA, France, Russia, India and China. The first one, USS Nautilus, was launched on 21 January 1954 but it was a woman who learned atomic physics and reactor design so that she could calculate the maths needed by physicists to