Write short note : Annales School

Answer: The Annales School was a school of historiography that began in France in the early twentieth century.

• It was started by French historians such as Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, and took its name from the journal ‘Annales’.
• These historians said that history should not be limited to political events, kings and wars.
• They studied climate, agriculture, trade, technology, means of communication, social groups and the collective mentality of people, and used the help of other subjects like geography and sociology.
• This widened the scope of history to include the life of ordinary people.