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Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]
The whole tone of your post is unpleasant Varsovian. The correct spelling of women is 'women' not 'wimmin' which is pure 1970/80s and I suspect you are using it for a cheap laugh.
Women have been written out of history, that is fact.(except for monarchs as you say)
I do kind of agree that Mary Seacole has been 'done to death' ( there was even a mural of her where I used to live in South London) but for years she was ignored because of her colour, when in fact she did a whole lot more nursing than Florence Nightingale ever did. did you know that most of Flo's patients died and she spent years lying around in bed being depressed about it? no? well that is because I suspect you know very little about either of them.
written history has traditionally been all about white men, dates of battles etc.
for example when we learn about ww2 at school we were shown Polish cavalry gallopping at tanks. IMO that was a cut and paste job.
the fact that more or less every woman in Berlin between the age of 8 and 80 was raped when the Russians arrived is of no interest to your average male historian.
let us deconstruct the word 'history' - HIS- STORY - not herstory is it?
as barney said, many of us do not realise that history is more than a list of kings and battles.
undoubtedly there have been heroic women in all countries, consigned to the bin of 'history'.
i did read a book about a fascinating Polish woman who was a spy in the war, damned if i can remember her name.
ok i couldnt find her but i found another!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Skarbek