This happened when I asked strangers to nominate our greatest women | History | News

In those dark days of Covid, when we were all limited to our homes and missed the joy of the wider community, I wanted to do something positive to cheer myself and others. In January 2021, I asked foreigners from social media to nominate a woman from history, and they thought they should be better known and celebrated.

It has become a unique and quite special social history research. Within a few days, I had thousands of answers to the word: some of them were the amazing women who were less known than the pages of history, but others were less known than the pages of history. In the 1930s, an Italian child suggested the extraordinary Jewish Jewish-Italian scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini, a professor of chemistry in the 1930s with the racist policies of the Mussolini government. The oldest living Nobel award -winning was still teaching when he died at the age of 103 in January 2012.

Another suggestion came from a young girl in China, who wanted to mark the Chinese poet Ding Ling, who was cleared of the Communist Party in the middle of the twentieth century and saw that his work was banned. A young man in Cardiff nominated the brave German campaignist Sophie Scholl, who was caught in the age of 21, who founded his brother and the Nazi White Rose group with his brother and the Nazi white rose group to stand up against hate and anti -Semitism.

These were the tip of a very large iceberg. Indeed, in late spring, more than 10,000 people from all over the world joined the #womanhistory campaign and shared the stories of many amazing women from all over history, and did all kinds of things under the sun. Instead of trarol people who do not accept their days, most people strengthened my belief that they wanted to celebrate the best, bravest, most surprising, most surprising and most selfless.

The experience reminded me that it is important to share the best of humanity, as a antidote of bad news and cynical attempts to establish different groups against each other. It is quite simple, the campaign gave me hope. A book came before this social media campaign, and then the only woman who visited England in the spring of 2023 is a stage show. And here is my first book for young adults, feminist history for every day of the year.

Because Night After Night In Theatresses From Salford to Scarborough, Winchester to Westcliff-on-Sea, After the Show-Who I Brought to Life on Stage The Inspiring Stories of Wome SUCH AS EMILL WILLAMSON WHO, WHOM FROWEDS, FOUNDEDS, FOUNDEDS The Forerunner to the RSPB Or Libar British Striker, Footballer Lily Parr – Teachers, Parents, GrandPents, Carers and Young Peall Themselves Would come and Talk Afterwards and ASK I -EVER CONSİDERED WROK.

Finally, after two years of research and writing, here – page 366 women, girls and a book that makes a difference in the life of history … In everyone’s life. When Mary Shelley was only young when she was young and was published anonymous on 1818 New Year’s Day, there is an introduction to the trials of every day and between them.

It was difficult to decide who would be included and who would be left outside, but in 2021, I was helpful by the first social media campaign and the desire to include as many young and living role models as possible.

In other words, Malala Yousafzai took on the bus in Pakistan in 2012 on October 9, in 2012, and hit him for a crime of going to school. Greta Thunberg, Ugandalı Climate Activist and Environmental Campaign, Vanessa Nakate and Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, is like the incredible PARIMPian Ellie Simmonds, the youngest person given to the MBE in 2009. The extraordinary Japanese climber Junko Tabei, the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, is like Pauli Murray, who was arrested for challenging the racist Jim Crow laws in the United States 15 years before Rosa Parks’s Alabama bus protest.

Those who campaign to allow women to be a doctor or lawyer, allow women to vote or allow them to work with the same terms as their brothers, from Africa to Sri Lanka from Australia to Sri Lanka.

The book aims to be the beginning of a conversation about what it means to change your own way in life, what it means to choose your own way, what it means to be wrong or unfair.

So far, most readers went directly to their birthdays to explore their ‘birthday twin’! Others seek dates that are important to themselves. It’s not important.

But why is he publishing this kind of book now? In part, the pressures on young people are never so big. Shamers and Trols are related to the pressures of social media and digital world, which has become a forum for the essay of women’s hostility and bullying, misinformation and hatred.

TV drama adolescence, the terrible consequences of uncontrolled social media and the ways of manipulating, controlled and weakening by young people just by personal interests and greed.

When I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a common narrative – we all sat down to watch the same television programs, raised by our families and lived in our communities. If we were lucky, our role models were our parents and families, teachers and club leaders. Now, the pressures on parents, caregivers and grandparents are growing, because each child has a mini computer in his pocket and can access the worst type of misinformation in a button.

Of course, bullying, naughty and injustice had always existed, and it will always exist-but it is impossible for young people to escape now. More than 76% of girls received unwanted sexual images on their phones. Many say how they feel weak, how the world is a hostile and broken place, and the endless news cycle of genocide, war and natural disasters causes anxiety and instability.

An important reason for publishing now is to tell a different story. In a world that can feel crushing, it is important to remember that individual people like us can make a difference. Our voices are important. Roasing article, score! The victorious rise of women’s sport and the way lions bring the country together during the euro.

His achievements have only been due to the campaign for the last century – since the football union forbade women’s football in 1921 on the Premier League club fields (a prohibition until 1971!)

Slowly, everyone working together changed the debate about women’s sport for the benefit of players and fans. The article of the month of June believes that men can be feminist, great boys and men throughout history, who believe that everyone should be treated in a fair way, no matter what they are, and that girls should have the same opportunities as boys.

From Andy Murray to Chadwick Bosseman and Pierre Curie, all siblings, cousins, friends, husbands walking with suffratetes to demand justice. These are the men’s role models we need.

It is true that the world in the world in 2025 is a complex and challenging place with the return of equal rights and the establishment of the nation against the nation. But everywhere, science, politics, art, social care, the incredible women of the environment and sports – they are all amazing, spectacular, inspiring things. We can return the tide together. Worst of all we can choose to celebrate the best in humans – men and women.

My feminist history for every day of the year is just a contribution, apocalypse shift and despair. It reminds us that we bring this world together and that we are stronger together. This is for what you believe – even if others don’t accept others – a book about having the courage to stand up and trying to do good in the world.

Above all, hope for young people, positive traveling, a book about the full life of one’s own valuable life. Who will you discover today?

• Feminist date is now released by Kate Mosse (Macmillan, £ 20) for every day of the year