What follows is the conventional history as formulated by Macaulay (1901).

Environmental history further broadens the subject matter of conventional history.

Big History, in contrast to conventional history, has more of an interdisciplinary basis.

One account suggested that conventional history had the "sense of grinding the nuts into an ever finer powder."

Ginzburg "challenges us all to retrieve a cultural and social world that more conventional history does not record."

It also covered a broader area than conventional political history, including questions on the history of technology, immigration, social issues and religion.

The first head of state to be tried for war crimes, Mr. Milosevic today also turned much conventional history on its head.

"It doesn't disturb me at all," she said when asked whether the new history had not all but knocked out conventional history.

This makes it very much shorter than conventional histories which do sometimes list duplicate and non-valid things.

The book is not a conventional history of style, but rather one of ideas and culture.