Alltagsgeschichte is a form of Microhistory practised in particular by German historians during the 1980s. Microhistory is a branch of the study of history. ...
The name comes from German, where Alltags means everyday; it can thus be roughly translated as everyday-history.
In this sense, alltagsgeschichte can be considered part of the wider Marxian historical school of 'history from below'. History from below is a form of historical narrative which was developed as a result of the Annales School and popularised in the 1960s. ...
The purpose of alltagsgeschichte is to find and prove the links between the down-to-earth, everyday, basic experiences of ordinary people in a society, and the broad social and political changes which occur in that society. Because this is such a massively broad endeavour to undertake, it can only feasibly be practised on the most minute of scales. Thus alltagsgeschichte becomes a form of microhistory.
Alltagsgeschichte can also be linked to the italian historical doctrine of microstoria
One famous publication of collected alltagsgeschichte works is The History of Everyday Life by german historian Alf Lüdtke.
These back-to-back panels were organized with the intention of taking stock of current work in the field of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life), assessing how the field has developed in the past few decades, and establishing lines of inquiry for future work in the field.
One of Alltagsgeschichte's early contributions was to insist that ordinary people act and are not merely acted upon by larger structures, forces, and powerful figures.
Alltagsgeschichte was well-positioned to draw on the broad return to story-telling ("narrative") in European history.
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