LOCAL

HISTORY
What is Local History?

– Local history is the key to understanding the different cultures &

perspective of small communities.
– It presents the past events and experiences of single communities
that live equally unique among the others.
– It aims to gain a better insight upon others and ourselves.

(Healey, 2008)
Importance of Studying Local History

– It enables the student to gain a greater interest in history.

– His mind is not only filled with historical events and dates
but helps him also analyzing the small details that made his
local history unique from the others.
– Gives the student a better sense of truthfulness on the
surrounding that he lives with.
– Appreciation of national history begins from the local history.
Goals of Local History

– To allow the students to be directly engaged in doing it.

– Learn to analyze data with a careful and critical eye for the most intricate
details and to enable them to question the foreseen data.
– Learn the sense of involvement collaboration and commitment.
Why Local History Matters?

– It gives us a whole new perspective toward crucial events that took place in our
communities.
– They also play part in making and shaping the history today.
– By understanding more of local history creates historical patterns that
transforms into detailed stories that tell the beginning of huge events and the
lives of ordinary individuals.
Local History Teaches About Community

General locations and common objects in your community can follow the
extensive ancestry of previous generations on the places to live. Only few
individuals know their own region’s lineage behind their communities. In local
history, you will gain a better grasp of understanding the past and perceiving the
present by learning more of your own community’s origin.
History Is All Around You

The historical knowledge you wish to learn is all around you. So

instead of going places far away such as America, Austria and many
other countries, you can instead learn the history of your own
community’s history. By reading your many sites and records, you can
see the historical richness of your community. You will feel enlightened
after understanding so much about the past history of your local place
and how it managed to become the community that it is right now.