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The history of history refers to the history of the ways in which historians, and human societies generally, have recorded their own history. It is a rather ambiguous and clumsy term, but no better one has been developed. Historiography has a somewhat different meaning: the study of the methodology and practices of writing history. "Historiology" would be a logical word for the study of the history of history, but has never gained acceptance.
(It should be noted that in this article the term "history" is used to refer only to human history, not to the narrative of events in the non-human world or the pre-human past, which are usually defined as natural history.)