Editing Historiography (section)

==Terminology==
In the [[early modern period]], the term ''{{linktext|historiography}}'' meant "the writing of history", and ''historiographer'' meant "[[historian]]". In that sense certain [[Official history|official historians]] were given the title "[[Historiographer Royal]]" in [[Rikshistoriograf|Sweden]] (from 1618), [[Historiographer Royal (England)|England]] (from 1660), and [[Historiographer Royal (Scotland)|Scotland]] (from 1681). The Scottish post is still in existence.

Historiography was more recently defined as "the study of the way history has been and is written—the history of historical writing", which means that, "When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians."<ref>{{cite book |first1=Conal |last1=Furay |first2= Michael J. |last2=Salevouris |title=The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide |publisher=[[Harlan Davidson (publisher)|Harlan Davidson]]<!-- This was a family-owned higher educational publishing house that was started in 1976 by someone with the surname Davidson and was sold to John Wiley & Sons in 2012, according to an Article in Publishers Weekly. -->  |year=1988 |page=223 |isbn=0-88295-982-4}}</ref>