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hobbies and interests genealogy and ancestryWhat is local history writing?
Local history is the study of history in ageographically local context and it often concentrates onthe local community. It incorporates cultural and socialaspects of history. Historic plaques are one form ofdocumentation of significant occurrences in the past and oralhistories are another.
Keeping this in view, why local history is important?
Local history is the study of history in alocal context, often concentrating on events that affected alocal community: people or places of a particular village oftown. These events could be anything from movements, wars, births,or deaths. Below are three reasons why local history isimportant for our community.
Moreover, what are the issues problems in the Philippine local history?
One of the major problems in the writing ofPhilippine history stems from inadequate knowledge ofhistorical conditions in the rural Philippines. Theproblem is further complicated by a tendency to treatsociety as a monolithic structure susceptible to outside influenceand change at a uniform rate.
Local history is the study of history in ageographically local context and it often concentrates onthe local community. It incorporates cultural and socialaspects of history. Historic plaques are one form ofdocumentation of significant occurrences in the past and oralhistories are another.