Just to be sure that history has not developed an alternative meaning in the U.S. as so many english words have I checked this in an American dictionary as opposed to the O.E.D. Here is the link: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/history
Whichever way you cut it history is a chronological record of past events that can be read. To record in any meaningful way you need writing, be it on parchment, paper or chiseled in to tablets of stone! Unfortunately oral history tends to become corrupted in the telling and peoples recollections are coloured by bias. As part of my B.A. in history we were taught to seek ought primary source material and to consider the witting and unwitting testimony from secondary sources as suspect. Regards G >From Bridgerule in glorious Devon, England. On 4 Jun 2013, at 18:49, Mary Stores <[email protected]> wrote: > Gordon, I do have some history passed down orally, and some written down. But > your argument if it's not written down it's a myth is way off base. > Otherwise, a lot of people would be muths, and we all had to come from > somewhere, don't we? And think of all the people throughout history that have > had fabulous oral traditions. > > ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the just-chat group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
