Historians describe and explore this objective existence, process and its laws, spiritual production practice and products created by it.
The narrow sense of historiography refers to the latter, which is the unity of spiritual production and practice, and what it creates belongs to ideology.
Before the birth of Marxist history, history was generally defined in a broad sense, that is, the definition of history was often the same as that of history, and few people made a strict conceptual distinction between the two.
"History" and "history" in English are the same word: history.
According to the fourth edition of Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Learning Dictionary, the first meaning of history refers to "history"-the study of past events; The second meaning is "history"-a thing of the past, especially a recognized thing in the overall sense; The third meaning actually comes from the first meaning-a systematic description of past events.
So "history" and "history" are its original meanings.
In the definition or explanation of history by western historians, what history refers to specifically generally depends on the specific text context.