[ **up: [[History]]** ] --- # Historiography > Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic by using particular sources, techniques of research, and theoretical approaches to the interpretation of documentary sources.[^1] [^1]: ‘Historiography’, *Wikipedia*, updated 15 March 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography.