On This Day

I run a channel at work called On This Day (with Wikipedia). I put a specific date into Wikipedia, then choose an exciting event that happened on that day to document.

I always knew history was white and male, but doing this research has really brought it home to me. Compared to men, women are virtually absent from history, and all our ‘firsts’ (first woman in space, etc) come after men’s.

However, on the upside, the amount of ground we have made up in the past 100 years is astounding - the world is now more equal, more tolerant, safer, more peaceful and more diverse than you could ever have imagined it might be in 1918, when women were only just allowed to vote in the UK.

There’s still a lot of work to do, but if humanity keeps progressing at this rate, the future will be stellar.