(n.) A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.
(n.) One versed or well informed in history.
Example Sentences:
(1) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(3) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(4) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(5) As the historian of neoliberalism Philip Mirowski argues , what the past 30 years have been about is using the powers of the state to divert more resources to the wealthy.
(6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
(7) Academic and TV historian Mary Beard has disclosed her innovative approach to dealing with her vitriolic Twitter trolls – writing them a job reference.
(8) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
(9) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(10) Others, including sociologist and historian of ideas Pierre-André Taguieff , claim that the media’s “methodical stigmatisation” of Israel and an increasing anti-Israel bias in France in general has encouraged the emergence of a Muslim Judeophobia.
(11) The British historian Simon Schama narrowly escaped death this year when the helicopter he was on caught fire and crash-landed.
(12) MI5 kept close watch on a number of people who were known within the British Communist party as the Historians Group.
(13) Applicants were then required to provide strong evidence to the NSW crown solicitor’s office of connection to country, and included affidavits from traditional owners and reports by an anthropologist, historian and linguist.
(14) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
(15) Elsewhere, historian Dominic Sandbrook will look at the global domination of Britain’s post-empire popular culture, and the Hairy Bikers will take 30 retired people to a secondary school in Old School, attempting to transform the lives and experiences of both.
(16) To a packed court, Mr Justice Gray delivered a verdict that excoriated Irving as a man and a historian.
(17) Yet it was as the defining Marxist historian of the century of revolution, the title of one of the most widely studied of his many books, that he became known to generations of students around the world.
(18) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
(19) Susan Greaney, an English Heritage historian, said: "The discovery … has certainly strengthened the case for it being a full circle."
(20) Christian Gizewski a research professor at TU Berlin describes himself as a "general historian" specialising in ancient history.
Historiographer
Definition:
(n.) An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.
Example Sentences:
(1) A historiographic paper in which the authors--psychiatrists--deal, based on research in archives, with the period preceding by approximately 100 years the opening of the psychiatric sanatorium in Opava.
(2) Medical history in the 20th century has emphasized the historiographic methods of the history of great men, historicism, social history, and intellectual history.
(3) Biographical data and the evaluation of the scientific work of Corti taken from Austrian, German, Italian, Swiss and American medical historiographers are summarised and completed by details and documents of the time Corti spent in Vienna.
(4) God created us to worship him, him only – not some stones.” Earlier attacks on Mosul’s heritage by Isis targeted the tomb of Nabi Yunus (the prophet Jonah), and the grave of Abu al-Hassan al-Jazari, a 12th- and 13th-century historiographer known as ibn al-Athir.
(5) The Institute for General Biology was already in the first period of its existence reknown not only for its teaching activities but was also internationally appreciated in the medical, biological and historiographic community.
(6) Which is true - but Howe notes that only one African writer is mentioned in the notes for Empire, and that many present-day historiographers of the Indian experience are ignored.
(7) The author holds that many of the geneticists who participated in the eugenics debates of the 1930's and 1940's had a clearer grasp of the distinction between science and politics than most present day historiographers of eugenics.
(8) Naturally, Dan Snyder claims the history books he reads don’t say that and somehow back him up, but those books were written by his dad, which is the historiographical equivalent of “My mom thinks I’m handsome.” Except your mom probably didn’t write a children’s primer that includes “reverse racism” .
(9) Other computer-assisted historiographical applications are examined and the potentials of developing technologies are explored.
(10) Historiographers must be especially accurate in their citations and references.