Daily: “If you can’t see it, you can’t be it” – Fixing history’s woman problem

<p>After decades of feminist thought, why is history still a parade of men and the things they’ve done? The writers, poets and teachers behind the Twitter initiative <a href="https://twitter.com/OnThisDayShe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@OnThisDayShe</a> are putting women back into history, one day at a time – and they’re not leaving out the serial killers. <strong>Jo Bell</strong>, <strong>Tania Hershman</strong> and <strong>Ailsa Holland</strong> of @OnThisDayShe talk to Jude Rogers about why history leaves women out, <a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Tania-Hershman/On-This-Day-She--Putting-Women-Back-Into-History-One-Day-At-A-Time/25091920" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">their new book</a>, why women don’t have to be heroes… and how your best ideas can come on a day out at the local treacle market.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li><em>“If you can’t see it, you can’t be it.”</em><strong><em> </em></strong><em>–&nbsp;</em><strong><em>Tania Hershman&nbsp;</em></strong></li><li><em>“The way we talk about history is revealing. A man is said to have done something. A women is always ‘reputed’ to have done something.” – </em><strong><em>Jo Bell</em></strong></li><li><em>“Even if women are recognised in their own time, they’ll often be forgotten by history afterwards.” –&nbsp;</em><strong><em>Ailsa Holland</em></strong></li><li><em>“Women’s history is always expected to be somehow uplifting. But it’s not history’s job to be inspiring.” – </em><strong><em>Jo Bell</em></strong></li><li><em>“If I’d know at school about some of the women we’ve featured it would have changed my whole outlook on life.” –&nbsp;</em><strong><em>Tania Hershman</em></strong></li><li><em>“This isn’t women’s history. It’s everyone’s history, with women put back in.”</em><strong><em> – Jo Bell</em></strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Jude Rogers. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jelena Sofronijevic&nbsp; and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong