About Girl History
I’m Lisa, and I’ve spent years falling down rabbit holes about women who history either glorified, erased, or got completely wrong.
Girl History started as a way to share what I was already obsessing over — the queens, the mistresses, the accused, the overlooked. The women behind the titles that schoolbooks rarely stopped long enough to actually explain.
What I love most isn’t the surface version of these stories. It’s the details underneath: the political maneuvering, the marriages that were really alliances, the executions that were really inconveniences removed, the reputations that were built by the men who outlived them. History has a habit of flattening complicated women into symbols — saints, villains, cautionary tales. I’m more interested in what actually happened.
I write about real historical women with depth, context, and a healthy skepticism toward the version of events that got passed down. If a story feels too clean, I dig into why. If a woman got a reputation she didn’t earn — or one she absolutely did — I want to understand how it happened.
Girl History isn’t a textbook. It’s for people who want the real story.
If you’re here, you probably already know that women’s history is some of the most dramatic, complicated, and underexamined history there is.
Welcome.
— Lisa
Founder, Girl History