#OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1229, regent Blanche of Castile oversees the signing of the Treaty of Paris on behalf of her son, King Louis IX. She had previously raised an army to defend his territories against Raymond VII of Toulouse.

#OnThisDay, 9 Apr 1944, Lise de Baissac returns to France to resume work as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

She gathered and passed on information, and took part in armed attacks. At one point she rented a room in a house occupied by the local commander of the German Forces.

Muriel Byck also arrives to be a SOE wireless operator. She dies of meningitis whilst still in France.

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.

Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.

They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.

Why is a bridge in Sarajevo named after two women?

#OnThisDay, 5 Apr 1992, Suada Dilberović, a Muslim, and Olga Sučić, a Catholic, were killed whilst on a peace protest in Sarajevo during the outbreak of the Bosnian war. They are the first civilian casualties in what became the Siege of Sarajevo. The siege lasted 1,425 days, and over 5,000 civilians were killed during it.

The bridge they died on has been renamed in their memory.

#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.

Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

#EuropeanHistory picks of the day:

@yvonne - Historian of medieval women & religion in Europe

@domwass@scholar.social (main) & @domwass@ramblingreaders.org (book reviews) - Medieval historian at University of Cologne (in German & English)

@BHO - Digital library of British history

@IHChistory - Multidisciplinary research institute in modern & contemporary history, Lisbon

@eseh - European Society for Environmental History

@bhp - British History Podcast

@OxMedStud - Oxford medieval studies platform

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Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Sept 1943, Pearl Witherington parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive courier. The British SOE supported the French Resistance and a courier was tasked with moving papers and equipment around their network.

Witherington takes over leadership of her network, eventually commanding 1,500 maquis and overseeing the surrender of 18,000 German troops.

We are very proud to announce that Arturo Zoffmann has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council!

Over the next five years, through the comparative history of eight European countries, he will try to answer the question: Were states of exception a factor in the rise of European dictatorships in the 20th century?

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#OnThisDay, 22 Aug 1943, Yvonne Cormeau parachutes into France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supported the French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

She worked for 13 months and was never captured. You can hear her story on the Imperial War Museum site. https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80007171

#OnThisDay, 30 July 1942, Yvonne Rudellat arrives in Nazi-occupied France by boat as courier for the Special Operations Executive. She works for 11 months before her capture.

She had been shot in the head during her capture, and failed to recognise other agents who greeted her in Ravensbruck. She was transferred to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and died there of typhus just after its liberation.

#OnThisDay, 17 July 1979, Simone Veil became the first President of the European Parliament, and the first woman to preside over any EU institution.

As Health Minister in France, Veil had passed laws enabling access to contraception and legalising abortion.

Very early #OnThisDay, 7 Jul 1944 Krystyna Skarbek parachutes into France to work as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent. The British SOE worked with resistance fighters across German-occupied Europe.

Skarbek had been the first woman to be an SOE agent when she'd previously been sent to Hungary and Poland in 1939-41.

#OnThisDay, 26 Jun 1949, all Belgian women are able to vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time.

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.

Her cellmate said her last words to her were “how can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”