Lawrence, Snežana M.Megeney, AlisonSharples, NickMasterson, BrendanJones, Matthew2023-03-082023-03-0820221451-673Xhttps://scidar.kg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/17068In this short philosophical and discursive paper, the main objective is to reassess a new emergent role of the history of mathematics in order to bring about greater diversity and engagement in the mathematical sciences. The discussion is based around the project undertaken at a North London university and their partner pre-university college, which piloted the larger national project in the UK in the local context. The success of the project, it is further suggested, would greatly benefit from a framework in which the history of mathematics as a humanistic discipline is closely related to viewing mathematics as a virtuous practice. We also include a short summary about the lives and careers of two Serbian mathematicians, Judita Cofman, and Milica Ilić-Dajović, to showcase how learning about the ways in which marginalisation takes place can help students position themselves and contextualise their priorities as they enter the professional mathematics landscape.enCC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/Levelling uphumanistic mathematicsdecolonising mathematicsmathematizingvirtuous practice.article10.46793/Uzdanica19.S.017L