#but Mary Seacole is seemingly a perfect fit for the course???
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It pisses me off so much that Mary Seacole isn't on the GCSE history Medicine Through Time course, and Florence Nightingale is.
#this post is inspired by Checking Out Me History#thank you John Agard#but seriously#the course is already full of white men#and the only two women we learn about are Florence Nightingale and Rosalind Franklin#but Mary Seacole is seemingly a perfect fit for the course???#she helped the field of medicine SO MUCH#and also had way more practical experience than nightingale#gcses#gcse history#gcse student#actually while we're on the subject imma say it: the entire cold war topic feels very... propaganda-y#i don't really have the political knowledge to get into it#but the course LOVES to emphasis what bad people Stalin; Khrushchev and Brezhnev were#while ignoring... everything about jfk and reagan and literally all the american presidents we look at on the course#ALSO the Elizabeth course seems to glamourise colonialism a bit too much for my liking#as well as glorifying francis drake#ironically the only one i study i don't find a problem with is the weimar and nazi germany course
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