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'In the last ten years, family history has breached the divide between community and professional history. Increasingly, academic historians are producing scholarly work exploring their own family histories. These narratives are contexualised within broader historical forces such as empire, migration, trade, nationalism, and forms of social exclusion based on gender, race, and class. In a 2020 seminar at Princeton University, Stéphane Gerson called this variety of history, ‘history from within’ (‘A History From Within: When Historians Write About Their Own Kin’). The term ‘autoethnography’ is sometimes used.' (Introduction)
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