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Local History World Wide -
draft framework

Suggested headings for standard national presentations

• Introductory remarks
  • E.g. on the relative standing of local history, tradition, historiography…


• Genres
• Monographs on local communities/districts (parish, town, city, county, region…)
• Monographs on manors, enterprises, associations, churches and other local institutions
• Anthologies on local topics
• Annuals and other periodicals
• Biographical monographs/books of reference
• Genealogy/family history
• Picture books
• etc. etc.


• Ways and means of publication
• Commercial publishing?
• Public commission/sponsorship?
• Private commission/sponsorship?


• The academic field
• Universities with local history as a defined field of teaching and research
• Related trends such as Alltagsgeschichte, microhistory, demography (family reconstitution) etc
• Academic disciplines other than history involved in local history projects?


• Institutions, organizations, networks
• Local history associations
• Associations and networks of archives, libraries etc.
• Consultative institutions (institutes of local history...)
• Related areas such as cultural heritage and genealogy


• Bibliography and references
• Where to read more about local history in that particular country, preferably with links to articles published on Internet.


• Web links, perhaps arranged under headings such as
• Institutions and organizations
• Journals
• Universities
• Internet resources and networks
• Other…


• Acknowledgments
• References to those who have provided information for LHWW and/or from what publications the editors has collected such information

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