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单词 history
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history
(hɪstəri )
Word forms: histories
1. uncountable noun A2
You can refer to the events of the past as history. You can also refer to the past events which concern a particular topic or place as its history.
History is full of seemingly minor events leading to international showdowns.
...the most evil mass killer in history.
...the history of Birmingham. [+ of]
...religious history.
1. make history phrase
Someone who makes history does something that is considered to be important and significant in the development of the world or of a particular society.
She made history by becoming a leading judge at the High Court.
2. go down in history phrase
If someone or something goes down in history, people in the future remember them because of particular actions that they have done or because of particular events that have happened.
Bradley will go down in history as Los Angeles' longest serving mayor.
...a day that will go down in history.
2. uncountable noun A2
History is a subject studied in schools, colleges, and universities that deals with events that have happened in the past.
3. countable noun B2
A history is an account of events that have happened in the past.
...his magnificent history of broadcasting in Canada. [+ of]
...oral histories taken from elderly people in Rochester.
Synonyms: chronicle, record, story, account  
4. countable noun [usually singular]
If a person or a place has a history of something, it has been very common or has happened frequently in their past.
...a history of drink problems.
5. countable noun [with poss]
Someone's history is the set of facts that are known about their past.
He couldn't get a new job because of his medical history.
...an exhibition documenting the personal history of Anne Frank.
6. uncountable noun
If you say that an event, thing, or person is history, you mean that they are no longer important.
The Charlottetown agreement is history.
7. the rest is history phrase
If you are telling someone about an event and say the rest is history, you mean that you do not need to tell them what happened next because everyone knows about it already.
We met at college, the rest is history.
8.  See also natural history
Quotations:
The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class strugglesKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsThe Communist Manifesto
History is philosophy from examplesDionysius of HalicarnassusArs Rhetorica
There is properly no history; only biographyRalph Waldo EmersonEssays
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make todayHenry Ford
History is past politics, and politics is present historyE.A. FreemanMethods of Historical Study
What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from itG.W.F. HegelPhilosophy of History
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awakeJames JoyceUlysses
The world's history is the world's judgementFriedrich von Schiller
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunesVoltaireL'Ingénu
That great dust-heap called `history'Augustine BirrellObiter Dicta
History [is] a distillation of rumourThomas CarlyleHistory of the French Revolution
History gets thicker as it approaches recent timesA.J.P. TaylorEnglish History 1914-45
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farceKarl Marx
History is littered with wars that everybody knew would never happenEnoch Powell
History is the essence of innumerable biographiesThomas CarlyleCritical and Miscellaneous Essays
History repeats itself
Idioms:
the rest is history
said to mean that you do not need to say any more about an event because you are sure that everyone is familiar with what happened next
A job with the company was advertised in The Daily Telegraph. I applied and the rest is history.
be history [spoken]
to be no longer important, relevant, or interesting
He sometimes wonders if he made the right choice when he decided to give up football. `I might have made it in football, but that's all history now.'
Collocations:
aviation history
The airstrip is steeped in aviation history.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It's the most expensive attack helicopter in aviation history.
The Sun (2010)
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 could change aviation history.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
browsing history
And, if you send your phone off to be repaired, delete your browsing history.
The Sun (2013)
But extra powers allowing police officers to view browsing histories angered civil liberties campaigners.
The Sun (2016)
It is a small file that stores your browsing history and preferences.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
change history
It's about a moment in time which changed history.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The players will have changed history.
The Sun (2012)
Who could have guessed that he was changing history?
Christianity Today (2000)
chart the history of
This exhibition charts the history of banknotes.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The Beginner's Guide to the Universe charts the history of the world from the Big Bang onwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
If a show charting the history of the mining industry sounds boring, think again.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
church history
Answers to these questions require some knowledge of church history and doctrine.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Much church history and theology can be unearthed from textual footnotes.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
The consensus of church history clearly affirms the value of images.
Christianity Today (2000)
cinema history
He is the most successful man in Hollywood, responsible for the two most lucrative films in cinema history.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There's a shot, probably one of the most famous shots in cinema history, where he's standing in the doorway at the end.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But cinema history is littered with these plucky underdogs.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
colonial history
Over the course of colonial history Americans had taken a narrow view of imperial concerns.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
Early projects reflected his fascination with the colonial history of southern Africa.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Go back to our colonial history.
The Sun (2015)
entire history
The entire modern history of South Africa is inextricably intertwined with sport.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In so many ways, the entire history of broadcasting was leading up to this moment.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In the entire history of humanity has any crime been committed more than that of music piracy?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
explore history
The Museum of Lakeland Life engagingly explores local history.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I also had a particular interest in exploring the history of sound recording.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He presents a four-part series exploring the history and influence of Protestantism.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
family history
Meanwhile, patients who have had prostatic cancer, or have a family history of it, should have a tomato-rich diet.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Is there a family history of alcoholism that makes this a sensitive issue for him?
The Sun (2008)
I've long had an interest in family history and this show lets us know the stories of other people 's ancestors.
The Sun (2009)
She arrived armed with her family history and determined not to stand for any nonsense.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Mental illness or a family history of suicide can also contribute.
The Sun (2009)
football history
Two years on and one of the biggest myths in English football history is still alive and well.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
They are the two most successful clubs in English football history.
The Sun (2012)
These were the most famous six minutes in Italian football history.
Calcio: A History of Italian Football (2006)
history in the making
Most of the 28,000-plus crowd, who turned up to witness history in the making, for a start.
The Sun
That hardly sounds unusual, yet there was probably a bit of history in the making.
The Sun
You get a chance to witness history in the making, and end up obsessing over upholstery.
Times, Sunday Times
Why not witness his own bit of history in the making?
Times, Sunday Times
Unprecedented, history in the making, a night that shook the world.
The Sun
history is full of
History is full of examples of the persecution of those deemed to be the 'other '.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
This sport's history is full of incredible, crazy games.
The Sun (2011)
After all, United's history is full of stories of youth being given a chance and taking it.
The Sun (2015)
history is littered with
History is littered with once mighty industries that were toppled by innovation.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
History is littered with examples of ill-conceived attempts to keep the peace at any price.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Britain's modern economic history is littered with examples of abortive consumer booms.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
history lesson
Granted, the production tries, often successfully, to interpret the play not as a history lesson but as a reminder that never loses its urgency.
The Times Literary Supplement
Perfect for a history lesson or using up any leftover energy.
The Sun
As it turns out, an hour in his company indeed proves a history lesson, enlightening and entirely relevant to his latest songwriting endeavours.
The Sun
A riveting history lesson with a cool soundtrack.
Times, Sunday Times
The reason for the veiling could be stated adjacent to the curtain, giving visitors an extra history lesson.
Times,Sunday Times
history of humanity
We were living in perhaps the most apocalyptic time in the history of humanity.
The Sun
What he discovered could rewrite the history of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Local anaesthetic and toothpaste are possibly the two greatest prophylactics against anxiety in the history of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
You must be a trifle peculiar, after all, if you happen to like the most sublime creations in the history of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Even today, only 24 people in the entire history of humanity have witnessed that.
Christianity Today
history of literature
He was, of course, the thirstiest writer in the history of literature.
The Sun
So began one of the most baffling relationships in the history of literature.
Times, Sunday Times
She might equally have been referring to the history of literature.
The Times Literary Supplement
The main branches of literary science are history of literature, literary criticism, and literary theory.
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The theory and criticism of literature are, of course, also closely tied to the history of literature.
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history of mankind
Moments of discovery litter the history of mankind but rarely are explorers able to take mankind with them.
Times, Sunday Times
His last work was his most ambitious and impossible: a complete world history of architecture, linked to the history of mankind.
Times, Sunday Times
In the history of mankind, the history of civilization, people haven't always had that freedom.
Christianity Today
It could have been one of the great exchanges in the history of mankind.
Times, Sunday Times
Dark = the greatest aesthetic effort in the history of mankind.
Times, Sunday Times
history of philosophy
His writings belong, he tells us, to a 'specific moment' in the history of philosophy.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's a history of philosophy and ideas and writing.
Times, Sunday Times
A penetrating memoir that looks beyond science, providing rich insights into the history of philosophy.
Times, Sunday Times
Anyone acquainted with the history of philosophy knows that little rational weight adheres to the fact that a large number of philosophers at a particular time hold a certain view.
Christianity Today
Perhaps more generous readers will admire his efficiency in converting the history of philosophy into a series of snappy one-liners.
The Times Literary Supplement
history of psychology
These early research years corresponded with the founding of psychology as a scientific field (see history of psychology).
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This was a large task; the course covered the entire history of psychology in 3 lectures a week for 2 years.
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He described the history of psychology according to a view that differing schools of psychology are complementary and not incompatible.
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The journal publishes theoretical articles and literature reviews on the philosophy of psychiatry, theories of consciousness, and treatises on the history of psychology, but not empirical work.
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Over the course of the history of psychology, mentalism and behaviorism have clashed, with one or the other representing the dominant paradigm of psychological investigation at different times in history.
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history of religion
His profound knowledge of the history of religion led him eventually to deny the idea that science had a monopoly on truth and meaning.
Times, Sunday Times
For the rest of us it can give insights into the history of religion, of art and of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Today, it lives off its history, a history of religion and trade.
Times, Sunday Times
Switching to a more academic mode, he propounds a speculative theory about the history of religion as proceeding through a sequence of evolutionary stages.
The Times Literary Supplement
The monastery annexed to the church has been the home of prominent names in the history of religion and philosophy.
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history of science
But the history of science shows that these faculties are stunningly reliable when all goes well.
The Times Literary Supplement
The page towards me was the one of the most significant doodles in the history of science, in the history of human thought.
Times, Sunday Times
He wrote widely on subjects from biography and literature to management studies and the history of science.
Times, Sunday Times
The history of science was at first closely tied to the teaching of the sciences.
The Times Literary Supplement
This ambitious, readable book brings a momentous moment in the history of science to vivid life.
Times, Sunday Times
history of warfare
Their strategy was revolutionary in the history of warfare - and the effects were devastating.
Christianity Today
It calls for a new approach to the history of warfare, and goes a remarkable distance towards answering that call.
The Times Literary Supplement
It's not a history of warfare as such, but an exploration of why certain societies become dominant and then crumble.
Globe and Mail
The greatest amphibious landing in the history of warfare was an unqualified success.
Times, Sunday Times
She will explore the history of warfare and society's complicated relationship with those who fight.
Times, Sunday Times
history professor
Quite often, his appearance resembled that of an absent-minded history professor rather than the shrewd commercial lawyer he was.
Times, Sunday Times
Can a history professor unravel a dark secret that's been kept hidden for over 2,000 years?
The Sun
He was a history professor and then head of the national library, all while producing a clutch of well-regarded novels, several of which have been filmed.
Times, Sunday Times
After the war, as a history professor she achieved an international academic career.
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She admits, however, that the reaction may not have been quite so generous among the social history professors.
Times, Sunday Times
history repeats
Only the next 14 months will tell how closely history repeats itself.
Times, Sunday Times
Do not be surprised if history repeats itself.
Times, Sunday Times
One can only hope that history repeats itself.
Times, Sunday Times
So, good news: there's an inspired opening (time freezes and all of history repeats itself) and an ingenious conclusion (our lips are sealed!).
The Sun
These are simply different categories of thing: knowledge builds up; history repeats itself.
Times, Sunday Times
history textbook
My first draft read like a history textbook.
Times, Sunday Times
He also co-authored a history textbook for third and fourth year of high school.
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Instead, the governments of those countries write a single history textbook for all of their schools.
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All the holidays were replaced, as well as hundreds of street names; thousands of monuments were torn down; history textbooks were fundamentally altered.
The Times Literary Supplement
For example, in history textbooks, the use of timelines were highly effective for its power to illustrate several historical information in one straight line.
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human history
No commander in human history has had such a daunting responsibility.
Abshire, David M. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy (1988)
What is new in human history is that any great teacher can get face to face with any other person on the planet and potentially inspire them.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Indeed, social groupings of around 150 seem to crop up throughout human history.
Paul Martin MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005)
He said: 'The accused has been found responsible for abetting some of the most heinous crimes in human history.
The Sun (2012)
At least half a million died during the largest involuntary mass migration in human history.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
intellectual history
A new introduction summarizing research since the 1994 edition and an updated bibliography offer a fascinating survey of recent intellectual history.
The Times Literary Supplement
It also yields a vivid insight into intellectual history.
Times, Sunday Times
It proved to be a masterpiece of intellectual history.
Times, Sunday Times
For students of intellectual history, individual chapters in this book will be welcome and authoritative introductions to subjects of their specialization.
The Times Literary Supplement
This return to the longue durée presents challenges and opportunities for all historians, including practitioners of intellectual history.
The Times Literary Supplement
literary history
The books under review bring literary history to life.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Modern literary history is littered with tales of famous books that failed to make it to the screen.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It wasn't the first attempt in Australian literary history to give Aboriginal culture a boost into the mainstream.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
long history of
What appears to make the greatest impact is anything that reveals the long history of human fascination with these sacred sites.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I sometimes think my aversion to summer beautification rituals can be traced to a long history of miserabilism.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Unfortunately, the particular magazine in question also has a long history of being hideously accurate on many occasions.
Forbes, Bryan A SONG AT TWILIGHT (2003)
Just a name arbitrarily attached to a day and a night in the long history of days and nights which were the life of the world.
Clive Barker THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001)
Good freedom of assembly and a long history of press freedom.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
military history
They had planned and carried out one of the most successful landings in military history.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS (2003)
Such failings have occurred throughout military history.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
This is a book that revolutionised military history.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
modern history
Much of modern history may be understood through the prism of cultic behaviour and its horrific consequences.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Undergraduates were enlisted to vet each instalment and, the final straw, a modern history 'coadjutant' was assigned.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The president is experiencing approval ratings worse than any in modern history and for a longer period of time.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The chance discovery led to one of the most sensational literary finds in modern history.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
After all, it's an evocative name in modern history.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
music history
The pair made music history by joining together on stage for charity.
The Sun (2015)
The museum draws the general public into the world of music and music history.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Why is the importance of dance music sometimes ignored in music history?
The Sun (2016)
musical history
For this alone, she deserves a place in musical history.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The show shines a light on a period of musical history that is virtually ignored by the industry.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He also contributed to musical history in other ways.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
narrative history
It was 'commissioned', he says, 'as an accessible narrative history' informed by scholarly research.
The Times Literary Supplement
Publishers sought the prestige of scholarly eminence but had to lean on their authors to write the narrative history that the public craved.
The Times Literary Supplement
For a generation, narrative history has gained converts from historians once enthralled by structural analysis, perhaps bringing with them a dash of thick description and a pinch of anthropology.
The Times Literary Supplement
In future pupils will be taught computer coding for the first time and there will be a greater emphasis on scientific knowledge, narrative history and literary classics.
Times, Sunday Times
The reason for doing it as narrative history was to show, step by step, how each theatre of war was reacting to, or affecting, the others.
Times, Sunday Times
official history
An official history of the service, running up to 1949, was commissioned.
Times, Sunday Times
For all of its interesting detail, the book's broader thesis often reads like an official history for the modern liberal order, promoting a mythology of hyper-individualism and radical autonomy.
The Times Literary Supplement
They flew missions on almost every day and night of the war in what their official history calls 'probably the most continuous and gruelling' operation ever carried out.
Times, Sunday Times
In the light of this, my chapter was erased from the official history.
Times, Sunday Times
Even the multi-volumed official history of the great war was deficient.
Times, Sunday Times
period of history
The government was in constant need of funds during this period of history.
Times, Sunday Times
Scan a longer period of history, and the 21st century looks even more appealing.
Times, Sunday Times
In reality, however, we are living through a unique period of history: a time when carbon-based fossil fuels are plentiful and cheap.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a dramatic period of history that has attracted much attention.
The Times Literary Supplement
Very few books change an entire perspective on a crucial period of history.
The Times Literary Supplement
personal history
Without these insights into personal history, our collective memory is incomplete.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
What is her personal history?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Each person involved brings his or her own past experiences and personal history into the equation.
Why am I Afraid to Grieve (1994)
political history
An audio tour talks you through the city's political history.
The Sun (2016)
This is the most sensational victory in British political history.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
In his spare time he enjoys reading about political history.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
potted history
For those of you who don't know, here is a potted history.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In the process, it delivers a potted history of Bollywood.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This section in itself is a splendid potted history of changing tastes in illustration and changing attitudes to the Victorians.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
proud history
Britain has a large, highly skilled workforce and a proud history in engineering.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
These islands have a long and proud history.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The union movement has a proud history.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
read history
He prospered academically, and won a scholarship to read modern history at New College.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I read history at Oxford but had no idea what I wanted to do afterwards.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And he got himself into the University of Melbourne to read history.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
recent history
Given this is recent history, it doesn't take much digging to strike gold, though.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There was also a question mark in her family's relatively recent history.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It could have been one of the great collaborations of recent history.
The Sun (2011)
That is the real lesson of the recent history of road cycling.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
His main dividing line throughout was with its recent history.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
reconstruct history
Where archaeologists reconstruct history from fragments of the past, here the authors work back-to-front, locating landscapes and buildings that embody our national character and preoccupations.
Times, Sunday Times
Both study evidence, look for clues, reconstruct histories, and seek to establish an ultimate cause.
Times, Sunday Times
A lot of writers like reconstructing history.
Times, Sunday Times
record history
There are several crucial results related to the assumption that narratives were not written primarily to record history.
Christianity Today
Some of these images didn't just record history — they made it.
Times, Sunday Times
Quipus are also believed to record history and literature.
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Nevertheless, short stories were created to both record history and entertain.
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He was literally absent not only from family memory, but recorded history - so shadowy as to have not been there at all.
Times, Sunday Times
recorded history
By the standards of phantom pregnancies, it was probably the shortest one in recorded history.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The Goddess appears frequently in various guises in recorded history throughout the world.
Campbell, Eileen & Brennan, J. H. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit (1994)
It was the largest explosive eruption in US recorded history.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Just as it has done since the beginning of recorded history.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They also saw the six hottest years in recorded history.
Radford, Tim & Leggett, Jeremy The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium (1990)
recount the history of
The exhibit presents artifacts that recount the history of the company over a span of 153 years.
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The museum contains displays that recount the history of the forest industry as well as the wildlife of the forest.
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The chapter on the latter, curiously, simply recounts the history of printing with no apparent interest in the terms of the volume.
The Times Literary Supplement
Were he simply to have recounted the history of psychiatry, it would have been a much shorter work, dating only from the 19th century.
Times, Sunday Times
He recounts the history of the sport.
Globe and Mail
research the history of
You can also learn about how to research the history of your own home.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Her main interest lay in live performance and in researching the history of old folk ballads.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
But those researching the history of suicide would be better off foraging in libraries and electronic databases for themselves.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
rewrite history
What he discovered could rewrite the history of humanity.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
If the present team go up, they may be rewriting history again.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
No amount of trying to rewrite history can change that fact.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
rich history
The bustling Italian metropolis also boasts incredible food, rich history and immense culture.
The Sun (2017)
They will explore Jaipur's rich history and incredible buildings, take elephant rides, shop in the hectic streets and try meditation.
The Sun (2016)
It would be easy to snooze the day away in the spa, but Galway is surrounded by rich history and beautiful scenery that has to be explored.
The Sun (2009)
shape history
It was the sort of victory that shapes the history of sport.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
History is shaped by vast, impersonal forces.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We must be prepared to play our part in shaping the history of the country.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
shared history
They have inside jokes, nicknames, and shared history.
Christianity Today (2000)
I feel very lucky to have all that shared history.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
At the same time, their shared history pushes them together.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
short history
In our relatively short history we have built healthy businesses in more than 50 countries.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
These men had wielded a great deal of power in the church's short history.
Christianity Today (2000)
At five years old the UK Supreme Court was about to undergo the most radical changes of its short history.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
sporting history
This year will go down as the finest in Britain's sporting history.
The Sun (2012)
It's not often you see sporting history unfolding in front of your eyes.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Few coaches in sporting history have left on such a high.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
study the history of
Another report for the review studied the history of primary education.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
teach history
Why not teach history with a fully immersive computer program?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The two lived in the same house, taught history, and fought a proxy war using their pets.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In an age when history is taught in modules and disjoined clumps, this is a useful and entertaining volume.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
trace the history of
Experts trace the history of the item in an attempt to discover its true origin.
The Sun
Trace the history of your spiritual relationship, recalling the times it went well and the times it didn't work for you.
Christianity Today
Researchers have used material from collections to trace the history of the 1918 influenza virus.
Smithsonian Mag
He sets out to trace the history of 'a nation at home', discussing 20 houses that typify periods or styles and have a story to tell, or to be deduced.
Times, Sunday Times
Some historians trace the history of the city as far back as 4000 years ago.
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tragic history
Above all, this book presents a productively expansive understanding of 'tragic history'.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was a vision that foundered on the tragic history of the 20th century.
Times, Sunday Times
In recent years, the town has had a tragic history.
Times, Sunday Times
His latest feature project comes with a timely, tragic history.
Times, Sunday Times
The contrast between the setting and the tragic history make the journey affecting in a way holidays seldom are.
Times, Sunday Times
troubled history
But it's a huge mistake to think that just because this country has a troubled history it cannot be put in a better place.
Times, Sunday Times
The troubled history here - and the snaking border - reveal why the backstop was cooked up in the first place.
The Sun
Still, don't judge a movie by its troubled history.
The Sun
Our arms sales have a troubled history too.
Times, Sunday Times
In certain urban areas, ties between residents and law enforcement authorities have a troubled history.
The Sun
unique history
Event organisers aim to mirror the cup's 'magic and unique history'.
The Sun
The house, once part of a much wider estate, has a unique history.
Times, Sunday Times
He has taken it upon himself to educate his players, not least about the club's unique history.
Times, Sunday Times
This spine and strategic position go some way to explaining the island's unique history.
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The garden's unique history and wildlife value will be explained through a series of regular on-site classes and interpretation boards.
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world history
Many of the current issues in world history might be replaced by radical deterioration of the environment.
World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
World history would have taken a very different turn.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Interest in world history has grown enormously in recent years.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)
Translations:
Chinese: 历史
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