noun A person who studies, researches, or writes about history.
- The historian gave a talk about daily life in medieval villages.
- history does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.
— Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital. 1848-1875 (1975)
- If this is what real people and societies are like, then it may be appropriate for historians to represent their subjects' lives in storylike form.
— Jonathan Gorman, Understanding history (1992)
- The historian spent years researching the causes of the war.
- A panel of historians discussed the anniversary on the radio.
