a view of historical events seen in terms of social trends
He had tried to educate himself late in life by reading books on political and socialhistory.
Examples of 'social history' in a sentence
social history
Blood is the prism through which he presents a vast human social history.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It chronicles her role as a vivid footnote in British social history.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He grounds his work solidly in the larger context of British social history.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Close your eyes and join him on a journey that takes you through British social history and arouses all the senses.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Could she make the transition from being a biographer of a duchess to writing a political and social history of a vicious war that transformed Anglo-American history?
social history in British English