History
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History is a term uised tae descrieve information aboot the bygane. Whan uised as the name o a field o study, history refers tae the study o the written history o fowk . The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica remerkt that (Caw canny! Wanchancy translation!),
"History in the maist braid meanin is aw that haes came tae, no juist aw the phenomenae o human life, but thir o the naitural warld forby. That includes awthing that unnergaes chynge; an as modren science haes shawn that thare is nocht absolutely staitic, tharefore the hail universe, an ivery pairt o it, haes its history." Knawledge o history is aft said tae encompass baith ken o the past an historical thinkin skeels.
In modren academia, history is nou mair acceptit as a social science, in parteecular whan chronology an the speirin oot o siclike is applee'd.
