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historian

[hi-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / hɪˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /
NOUN
student of history
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Guided walks will be hosted by local historian and 'Morecambeologist' Peter Wade, on Thursday 14, Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May at 14:00 - 15:30.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

David G. Schwartz, a gaming historian and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said Primm’s casinos were “built for an entirely different world.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

And what you can do if you… I’m a business strategy guy by work history, but trained as a historian.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Beginning in 1888 and continuing until the late 1960s, about 16 million tonnes of coal were extracted from the Comox Valley, according to historian Dawn Copeman.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2026

On a visit to the famous dinosaur fields of Como Bluff, Wyoming, he failed to notice the bones that were, in the words of one historian, "lying everywhere like logs."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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