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, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

The Irish-born Herbert had been operating as a courier - moving messages and equipment around - for over a year. She'd also had a baby whilst in France.

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snapshot photo of Mary Herbert. She is a white woman with dark hair, wearing a neckerchief and smiling.

. 50 years ago released
A Trick of The Tail

Many prog rockers would have wondered how this new singer shaped up

Those squeaky notes
Dee dee de de diddly dee
And Mike's bass pedals
A few lazy rolls around the toms
And the electric twelve strings following Steve's arpeggios

https://youtu.be/mx8lMo8RKXE?si=bQG_vT7JJn8Ru3zv

"Holy Mother of God
You've got to go faster than that to get to the top.
Dirty old mountain
All covered in smoke, she can turn you to stone
So you better start doing it right

Happy un-un-birthday Lewis Carroll, born in 1832. Pictured here: the frontispiece to The Rectory Umbrella, a magazine produced by Carroll and his 10 siblings, when he was around 17 years old. More in Jenny Woolf's essay here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mystery-of-lewis-carroll

, 6 Jan 1971, the Militant Mothers of Raymur, 25 women from the Raymur Place housing project in Vancouver, blockaded railway tracks to get a pedestrian overpass installed. 400 children from the housing project had to cross the tracks - while trains were running - to get to and from school.

The bridge was built and is now named after the women.

hat tip @workingclasshistory@threads.net

A group of women, both white and Black, sit or stand on railway tracks. Some have brought kitchen chairs, and others have built a makeshift tent. Photo is from March 1971, and was taken by Gordon Sedawie.

28 Dec 1943 fascists executed all seven brothers of the anti-fascist Cervi family as punishment for their activity in the 'Banda Cervi' partisan unit of the Italian resistance. Learn more about the resistance in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/