Blaž Zabel, the principal investigator, and Dušan Rebolj, a researcher, introduce the startup research programme The History of Humanities in Slovenia. They tackle several questions. Why should we care about the humanities in the first place? Why study them in Slovenia, specifically? How did the study of humanities intersect with Slovene nation-building? Why do Slovene humanities have a long tradition of staying home rather than going international? Is the trend shifting?