Local migration history
What Local migration history means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of Local migration history
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Reference: OCR
A local migration event studied by noting which forms of remembrance exist for it, who created them and what version of the event they emphasise.
Key events in local migration history, which you locate in their actual places rather than describing them in the abstract.
Topics that use Local migration history
- Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration (J410/11) - Key events in local migration history (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Arrival and settlement events
- Contested remembrance
- Evidence-based location
- Place and locality
- Public history and memorials
- Site versus commemoration
- Community institutions and their founding
- Industrial and economic change
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