HISTORY

BY:MALAIKA KHAN
 WHAT IS HISTORY?

History is the study of the past as it is described is the

study of the past as it is described in written
documents.Events occurring before written record are
considered prehistory. It is an umbrella term that relates
to past events as well as the memory, discovery,
collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation
of information about these events. Scholars who write
about history are called historians.
 HISTORIOGRAPHY

Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing

history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of
historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific
topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular
sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches. Scholars discuss
historiography by topic such as the "historiography of the United
Kingdom", the "historiography of Canada", "historiography of the British
Empire", the "historiography of early Islam", the "historiography of China"
and different approaches and genres, such as political history and social
history. Beginning in the nineteenth century, with the ascent of academic
history, there developed a body of historiographic literature. The extent to
which historians are influenced by their own groups and loyalties such as
to their nation state is a debated question
 PSEUDOHISTORY

Pseudohistory is produced by the application of the research

techniques of the historical method (primary sources and evidence)
characteristic of legitimate history; yet, in itself, the work of
pseudohistory is intellectually inconsistent with the historical record
and with the common-sense understanding held in the collective
memory of society. In practice, a pseudohistory presents a big lie
sensational claimsabout historical fact that would require the
revision (re-writing) of the historical record. The term pseudohistory is
applied to works of historical revision that are based upon or derived
from a theory or upon a re-interpretation or both; moreover, the
related term cryptohistory applied to a pseudohistory based upon or
derived from the superstitions inherent to occultism.