Local history

[1] Historic plaques are one form of documentation of significant occurrences in the past and oral histories are another.

Local history tends to be less documented than other types, with fewer books and artifacts than that of a country or continent.

Individual historic sites are inherently local, although they may have national or world history importance as well.

In Australia, local history is focussed on specific cities and suburbs or country towns and regions.

Outside the larger cities, local history often examines regional towns and surrounding areas.

In New South Wales, the Royal Australian Historical Society has studied local history as part of its remit since its founding in 1901.

Historians have examined the ways local history has been written in Australia since the nineteenth century.

Academic local historians are often found within a more general department of history or in continuing education.

In 1908, a Board of Education circular had urged that schools should pay attention "to the history of the town and district" in which they were situated.

[10] Local history can become a crucial component to policy-making and serve as a marketable resource and this is demonstrated in the case of Northern Ireland.

A new form of local history is the movement of "If This House Could Talk" projects in various urban neighborhoods in the United States.

[13] In Ukraine, the study of local history and regional ethnography is known as krayeznavstvo (uk:краєзнавство).

In modern Poland various organized krajoznawstwo activities are carried out by Polskie Towarzystwo Turystyczno-Krajoznawcze, roughly translated as "Polish Tourist and Sightseeing Society".

Shortly after the country's independence, a nationalist and romantic sentiment gave rise to a significant awareness of identity.