Why I Wrote History Waits to Be Heard

For most of my life, I assumed history was more or less settled. The textbooks told a story—of great kings, famous battles, and slow progress toward something we now call modern society. But when I started looking more closely, especially at the role of women in that history, the story fell apart.

What I found wasn’t just missing pages—it was missing people. Missing voices. Whole lives and contributions that had been erased or ignored, simply because they didn’t fit the dominant narrative.

That’s how History Waits to Be Heard was born.

I’m not a historian in the academic sense. I’m a researcher, a questioner, someone who’s never quite fit into traditional roles or accepted traditional answers. My book is driven by a simple philosophy I call Equality Without Distinction—the idea that we should see each other not as categories, but as contributors. Not as genders or labels, but as people with value.

Writing this book became more than just an intellectual exercise. It became a mission. I wanted to lift the veil on how power, gender, and societal memory shape the world we live in today—and what we lose when we only tell half the story.

This blog will follow that same spirit. Sometimes I’ll share behind-the-scenes insights, or historical reflections that didn’t make it into the book. Other times I’ll talk about my creative process or things I’ve learned from readers. And maybe—just maybe—I’ll help you see history a little differently too.

After all, history isn’t what’s written in books. It’s in the air around us.
It waits to be heard.

— Darren Palmer