local history
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field of history concerned with a locality
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- study of history
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- Inscription sur une façade d'une maison de la rue Saint Laurent.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Q8972593
- Commons category
- Local history
- P8168
- Calabash Nebula
- partially coincident with
- regional history
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Encyclopedic overview
Exhibition hall displaying local history displays and objects
Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context, often concentrating on a relatively small local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history. Local history is not merely national history writ small but a study of past events in a given geographical area which is based on a wide variety of documentary evidence and placed in a comparative context that is both regional and national. Historic plaques are one form of documentation of significant occurrences in the past and oral histories are another.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “local history” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.