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2 unusual facts about Social history


Social history

Demographic history is the study of population history and demographic processes, usually using census or similar statistical data.

Modernization theory was presented by Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931- ) and his Bielefeld School as the way to transform "traditional" German history, that is, national political history, centered on a few "great men," into an integrated and comparative history of German society encompassing societal structures outside politics.


Juliet Gardiner

Juliet Gardiner (born 24 June 1945) is a British historian and a commentator on British social history from Victorian times through to the 1950s.

Pauline Maier

Beyond traditional college offerings, Maier integrated participatory learning, political history and social history in a collaboration with online MUVE gaming project in a format that younger "digital divide" learners find engaging.

Robert E. Kennedy Library

Major subject areas in the collections include: book arts, environmental history, ethnic studies, fine printing, graphic arts, Julia Morgan's and John Steinbeck's first editions, landscape architecture in California, Robinson Jeffers' first editions, San Luis Obispo regional history, social history, William Randolph Hearst, and San Simeon.

Social history of Canada

The Social history of Canada is a branch of Canadian studies dealing with Social History, focusing on the history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life.


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1821 in sports

Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999

Béla Tomka

He earned a master’s degree in History and History of Eastern Europe at the University of Szeged, followed by postgraduate studies in economic and social history at the Corvinus University Budapest, in the United States (Minneapolis) and in Germany (Münster).

Birth control in the United States

Gordon, Linda (1976), Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America, Grossman Publishers, ISBN 978-0-670-77817-1.

Cynthia Herrup

Herrup's writings center primarily on the social history of criminal law, but she also touches upon the historical impact of gender and sexuality.

Donald Lees Reid

He specialises in local and social history and has written books on the history of the Garnock Valley and Doon Valley, including the towns of Beith, Barrmill, Dalmellington, Gateside, Kilbirnie, Patna, and Waterside.

Elaine Fantham

Fantham is an expert on Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and Roman religion and the social history of Roman women.

Geoff Eley

Eley is particularly well known for his early study, The Peculiarities of German History (first published in German as Mythen deutscher Geschichtsschreibung in 1984), co-authored with David Blackbourn (a fellow Briton, who now teaches at Vanderbilt University), which challenged the orthodoxy in German social history known as the Sonderweg thesis.

Grandfather Stories

The tales are nuggets of social history: among them, New Year customs in Rochester's elite "ruffleshirt" Third Ward, early professional baseball in Rochester, the corrupt matches that killed off professional rowing, and the invention of the detachable shirt collar in Troy, New York.

Hannu Soikkanen

Soikkanen was active in the study of Finland's history 1962–66 at Turku University, and 1967–76 in economic and social history.

Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Since 1998 he is Professor of Social History at Faculty of History, Theology, and Philosophy at the Bielefeld University.

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Barbadian historian Sir Hilary Beckles has said of this work that it "makes a seminal contribution to early West Indian economic and social history."

Kenneth Hudson

In 1972 he published his book on Building Materials in the Longmans IA series, and in 1979 he co-wrote, with Julian Pettifer, Diamonds in the Sky, the result of historical research on the social history of air travel for the BBC television series of the same name.

Marie Hartley

Marie Hartley (29 September 1905 – 10 May 2006) was the author or co-author and illustrator of some 40 books on the social history of the Yorkshire Dales.

My Wife Jacqueline

In his 2006 autobiography, Hello, Phillips said "The script was as light as a feather, with characters who appeared to live in a social, political and cultural vacuum that made Mrs Dale's Diary look like a profound study of social history."

Nayakuralu Nagamma

This war was very important in the social history of Andhra Pradesh.

Otto Brunner

Brunner, along with historians like Karl Bosl, Walter Schlesinger, Theodor Schieder and Werner Conze—all of whom supported, or were openly sympathetic to, Nazism in one way or another before and during the war (though more as nationalists than outright fascists) -- dominated the theory and teaching of medieval social history in post-war Germany and Austria.

Percival Spear

An accomplished historian of modern Indian social history, he taught at both Cambridge University and St. Stephen's College with great distinction.

Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery

Peterborough Museum has a collection of some 227,000 objects, including local archaeology and social history ranging from the products of the Roman pottery industry to a collection of marine fossil remains of international importance from the Jurassic period.

Rosamond McKitterick

Much of her work focuses on the Frankish kingdoms in the 8th and 9th centuries and uses palaeographical and manuscript studies to illuminate aspects of the political, cultural, intellectual, religious and social history of the early Middle Ages.

Russell Menard

Professor Russell Menard of the University of Minnesota specializes in the economic and social history of the British colonies in North America.

Social aspects of jealousy

Stearns similarly notes that the social history of jealousy among Americans shows a near absence of jealousy in the eighteenth century, when marriages were arranged by parents and close community supervision all but precluded extramarital affairs.

Staffordshire County Museum

The museum exhibits objects from Staffordshire County Council's collections, which hold over 25,000 social history artefacts, 35,000 photographs and 1,800 items of fine and decorative art.

Sven Lindqvist

His later works, from the late 1980s, tend to focus on the subjects of European imperialism, colonialism, racism, genocide and war, analysing the place of these phenomena in Western thought, social history and ideology.

The Liberty of Norton Folgate

This 10-minute title track recounts the social history of a corner of east London that until 1900 was controlled by St Paul's Cathedral.

Thomas Lord

Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999.

Uttarpara

Atul Krishna Ray, in his book Lakshmikanta: A Chapter In The Social History Of Bengal (1928) has written that Ratneshwar Roy Choudhury (1670–1720) belonged to the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family of Barisha-Behala.

Veronica Buckley

In 1979 she graduated from the University of Canterbury with first class honours in French with philosophy, and was awarded a postgraduate scholarship in cultural and social history at the University of London.

Warrior Challenge

The series followed from social history documentaries on UK television based on historical reconstructions, including the 2001 series Timewatch: Roman Soldiers to be. and Surviving the Iron Age, a 2001 update of the original 1978 experiment in Iron Age living Living in the Past.

Werner Abelshauser

In 1980 he was appointed as Professor for economic and social history in Bochum.

Wolf Tegethoff

Tegethoff studied art history, urban design, economic history and social history at the University of Bonn and Columbia University, New York.