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History journals and magazines exist. History blogs and websites exist. Women’s and queer history journals and blogs exist. Yet these histories are still novel. Their historians struggle to get their work into mainstream publications. When featured in public media, they can often fulfil a diversity quota, or a ‘special interest.’

Founded by Abby Woodman in January 2023, â€‹The HERstory Project is intended to be a platform for both underrepresented histories, and their historians. We want to support early career historians, academics, and writers to engage with their research interests in a judgement free, accessible way. Abby originally intended for the Project to be history blog to continue her engagement with historical writing after graduating. But as we've grown over the past 2 years, The HERstory Project has become so much more than we ever could have imagined. 

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In June 2023 the Project welcomed its first editors and contributing writers. In 2024 we launched out print magazine and grew our social media. In 2025 we have released The HERstory Project Podcast. Who knows what the future holds!

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The HERstory Project grew from a passion for underrepresented histories and a desire to make a career in history a reality. We hope you enjoy our work! If you'd like to write for us, join the team or learn more about our Project values, scroll down!​

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Learn about the core values of The HERstory Project, the motivations of our team and our hopes for the future of historical study. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our achievement of these values, please contact us here!

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We believe that history has a distinct ability to inform and impact our society and culture today: as the old adage says, learn from history or repeat it. It's also important to recognise where we've been, and appreciate those who came before us. The HERstory Project intends to educate about those that history tends to neglect.

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A key proponent of historical academic study is exclusivity, be it in the style of writing or language, the ability to access resources, there simply not being resources that exist, and often, no way for young historians to gain experience.

The HERstory Project aims to address this fundamental issue in historical education in several ways: our writing is made accessible and clear, we aim to increase the diversity of our team and our research, provide a space for historians to engage with academic research and publication, and The HERstory Project website will never be behind a paywall.

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Even we historians get bored of reading dull history. All of us want to engage with our research interests, and engage others! To keep our work accessible and educational it's important that we as historians and you, as our readers, have fun with it. If you have any suggestions about what you want to learn about, or what we can do to make our project more enjoyable, let us know here!

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