..., parents, and teachers at a neighborhood elementary school to document, preserve, and present local history. In the essay, graduate students describe how their work has changed their sense of connection to the local community and allowed them to apply social media and digital scholarship on behalf...

... 28 ORAL HISTORY REVIEW Keywords: Historiography, Method, Local History, Genealogy, Tradition In 1895, the Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical and Genealogical, a publication of a broad variety of notes, short articles, and queries related...

... philanthropy St Vincent de Paul boycotting Catholic Young Men’s Society Dundee Irish National League Keenan Stephen Van de Rydt Alphonsus Whittet James nationalism Scots College Rome religious humanitarianism Gender Class Religion Humanitarianism Dundee Scotland Local history Industrial...

...This chapter outlines the local history of Unión Zapata, which is strongly connected to the figure of Lázaro Cárdenas. It shows that unlike Santa María del Tule, Unión Zapata hardly existed as a population site before the formation of the ejido. It also records the formation of the Unión Zapata...

... locale with prosperous African American landowners. It also considers the importance of the Twentieth of May in providing the primary context in which African Americans gather to sing and pass down local history in the spirit of celebration. African Americans American Indians Sacred music Wiregrass...

...This chapter deals with local history. Local history encompasses a wide range of interests, concerns and outputs, which are serious and amusing, amateur and professional. Written local history can range from a few pages of extracts about a particular place or community produced on a desktop PC...

...This chapter illustrates the origin of local history. Where, or when, did local history start? It is an obvious question with which to begin, and one can be confident that it began with the study of antiquities, deciding on a suitable date is almost impossible. It can be tracked back as far...

...This chapter examines how local history ran into the buffers as it was increasingly marginalised in Victorian England. In the nineteenth century, the amateurism came into conflict with the professionalisation of archaeology and history. In the process, the seamlessness of past studies began...

...This chapter illustrates local and national history between 1880 and 1945. During this time, the subject matter of local history was recognised either as national history at the local level or the study of places through their economic history. Professional historians saw themselves researching...

...This chapter focuses on the status of current local history. Today local history needs to be issue driven, and should not just be source driven. A local historian might become interested in studying the past because they find a collection of documents, whether these are house deeds or newspapers...

...This book looks at how local history developed from the antiquarian county studies of the sixteenth century through the growth of ‘professional’ history in the nineteenth century, to the recent past. Concentrating on the past sixty years, it looks at the opening of archive offices, the invigorating...

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...Every place has its local history of queerness, as shown in this chronicle of queerness in Brighton, England. The author sketches an account of Brighton’s non-normative sexual practices and sexually dissident residents and visitors, especially from the late nineteenth century on. The discussion...

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...This chapter examines how the study of local history as an “act of self-reassurance” has grown in importance as societies have become mobile and people are less tied to a specific location. Historian Helmut Flachenecker writes of modern society that one is no longer the citizen of a location...

..., and conflict. Local history had a political dimension since the records which it preserved could be used to validate political claims and uphold legal judgments. This chapter discusses the political potential of urban histories and how they can be used to relate the experiences of the individual town...

...The introduction contextualizes the book within relevant historical fields, such as ‘place studies’. It expounds on the pros and cons of focusing on one city in order to understand the history of a place, and introduces the book’s main source, the earliest surviving local history of Balkh known...

... geological register. Their collaboration also illustrates how well the style and content of local history—a traditional literary and learned genre—could be applied to geology. For Webster, the image of ruins was essential for representing the historicity of geological phenomena. By attending to a new set...

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