Submitted by : Mercedita D.

Paradero

Be able to learn various approaches and methodologies in local history study

Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context and it focuses on on
the local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history of a community or,
town . Local historians discuss matters about past experience in familiar places, streets,
neighbourhoods, families or households. At a basic level there is a shared agenda of questions:
who lived here? How many of them? How, when and why were settlements made? Did
settlements grow, decline or shift over time? Did people or groups within them move or stay?
How did human activity mould the landscape? How far did the physical setting determine
people’s lives and opportunities? What work did men, women and children do, and on what
terms? How were they governed or governed themselves? How were they educated? Did they
take part in religious worship? How much of their experience was determined by outside
influences and how much by local and personal factors? What were their social identities,
attitudes and relationships? Did this communities’ exist?

This common agenda is a starting point for reconstructing the history of a place, both public
and private, and of seeing how and why people acted as they did in the overlapping spheres of
their lives.

Local historians are particularly interested in the structure of the local society – the whole
community, not merely the ruling class - the occupational structure, the demographic structure,
the social structure -the economic basis of the society, in particular local industry, trade and
farming. To these are related the topography of the locality, its communication system and
those aspects of local government and politics that did not merely reflect the national story.
(Stephens, 1977, p. 5).

As had been discussed in our past lessons, the history of a certain locality or community starts
with the geographical location, maps. Economy, Population, Government, Education, Historical
figures, religion and the nationality of its residents . Important events were narrated by the
author through primary or secondary sources, oral and written.
Be able to classify essays on local history

is a method of developing an essay by arranging people, objects, or ideas with shared

characteristics into particular classes or groups. Once you have settled on a topic for a
classification essay and explored it through various prewriting strategies, you should be ready to
attempt a first draft. This article will show you how to develop and organize a five-paragraph
classification essay

Genealogy, Expository essay,