This all started in December of 2016. Our editor and creator Josh Mitchell posted an idea in a Facebook group, that with in 48 hours had manifested into a passionate and inspired movement that would later be known as "The Hamilton Papers".

 

The idea behind the book was to get as many people from as many different countries as possible and give them one page each to explain what the musical "Hamilton" means to them, or how it has effected their lives. 

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After a week of planning and organising the initial brief went out. This included a ton of unnecessary details (not to mention the wrong email address) but it also helped establish one of the most exciting aspects to the movement. The hashtags. 

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We had 85 authors in this group and so each an everyone of them could identify with this project they were all working on #1of85 began to surface. This originally started as an identifier but soon grew to become something much more meaningful to everyone involved. 

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The essays soon began to roll in and as we started editing we realised this could be professionally printed and made into a proper book. Josh was going to hand make these books and compared to what they are now we going to be a sold D+ in art class. 

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The group all got behind the cause and showed interest in donating to get the books made. We realised that we may actually raise more money than we needed so we reached out to the team at Graham Windham and advised them that any extra proceeds we raised would be donated to them.  To help with our fundraising we also designed a range of promotional merchandise (still available) as well.

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We are still waiting for the next chapter of our story to be written but we would like to open up a page on this website to everyone who was unable to get involved with the book side of things to write an essay and we will post it along with all of our online here for the cast and crew to read. 

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So until then Hamilheads, keep writing like you are running out of time and we promise that will be enough!