(linguistics) The scientific study of language change.

(historiography) The techniques and guidelines by which historians use primary sources and other evidence to research and then to write history.

Research performed using the historical method.

Of or pertaining to art history

Of or pertaining to media history.

The past historic tense.

Fiction based on real historical events, but in which the characters are not real, and the minor events may not be realistic.

(Marxism) A methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, looking for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life.

(grammar) The historical present tense.

(grammar) The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written. / (grammar) The present tense as used when writing a fictional narrative.