Finding about social history was hard as we discovered on Friday. Because social history is diverse it has lots of parts to it. When we told each other what we thought social history could encompass, students said that
"The Treaty of Waitangi"
"Women getting the Vote"
and
"Slavery being abolished"
all were aspects of social history.
Social history is any history that touches on the economic, cultural and social institutions of a people. For New Zealand this can be as broad as impacts that laws have; especially for the Votes for Women campaign, and other political changes to NZ.
When we look at wikipedia to explain it, because I know that is a key point of call for your research. I looked at the contents bar and it gave me a great idea of what social history is.
- 3.1 Demographic history
- 3.2 Black history
- 3.3 Ethnic history
- 3.4 Labor history
- 3.5 Women's history
- 3.6 Gender history
- 3.7 History of the family
- 3.8 History of education
- 3.9 Urban history
- 3.10 Rural history
So Social history shouldn't be as hard to search for after all, all we need to do with our search terms is to incorporate some of those key words.
Lets have a try
if we use the key words
19th century women's history
Lets see what results we get.
Looking through this, we could go for the video. But if we look down the page using our skimming and scanning strategy we will find the 10 key dates in women's history- the 19th century. Its the 5th term in the google search, but it looks like it will be the best fit for the information we are trying to gather.
Have a go at searching by adding one of the social history trends that were above in yellow to your google search of 19th century.
In my searches I found some great resources that can also help.
This site with a slideshare of information
Slideshares or prezis can often be a treasure trove of information to help with searches and often easier than reading wikis.
This timeline:
How does this relate to NZ?
This great infographic about New Zealand economic development. How does is show that New Zealand was growing more resources for export?
(export means to send resources from one place to another for profit)
