chroniclers
Writers of history
Chroniclers are people who record events, especially historical ones.
The term suggests methodical documentation over time rather than interpretation or analysis.
Medieval chroniclers recorded the deeds of kings; modern chroniclers might document a neighborhood's transformation or a movement's rise.
The band's unofficial chroniclers have preserved every setlist since 1987.
Writer of formal histories
- biographerOne who writes lives
- archivistKeeper of historical documents
- medievalistMiddle Ages scholar
- scholarLearned, studious person
researcher · academic · antiquarian · narrative · documentary · historicity · historiography · archives
Document duplicator by hand
- calligrapherDecorative handwriting artist
- amanuensisDictation-taking assistant
- transcriberOne who records speech
- clerkOffice record-keeper
notary · quill · parchment · manuscript · scriptorium · vellum · codex · illuminated
One who gathers news
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
- columnistRecurring newspaper feature writer
- documentarianNonfiction film creator
- war correspondentJournalist covering armed conflicts
eyewitness · newsroom · editorial · byline · dateline · exposé · feature · broadcast
Stored data or albums
- logbookOfficial record of events
- registerRecord officially; vocal range
- diaryPersonal daily record
- journalsPeriodicals or personal logs
memoirs · entries · minutes · transcripts · yearbook · tally · ledger · accounts
Inherited cultural legacy
- archivesStored historical documents
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- traditionCustom passed through generations
- loreTraditional knowledge transmitted orally
testament · lineage · forebears · antiquity · relics · artifacts · oral tradition · collective memory
historiographer
Writer of formal histories
- biographerOne who writes lives
- archivistKeeper of historical documents
- medievalistMiddle Ages scholar
scholar · researcher · academic · antiquarian · narrative · documentary · historicity · historiography · archives · cultural
copyist
Document duplicator by hand
- calligrapherDecorative handwriting artist
- amanuensisDictation-taking assistant
- transcriberOne who records speech
clerk · notary · quill · parchment · manuscript · scriptorium · vellum · codex · illuminated · scroll
reporter
One who gathers news
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
- columnistRecurring newspaper feature writer
- documentarianNonfiction film creator
war correspondent · eyewitness · newsroom · editorial · byline · dateline · exposé · feature · broadcast · anchor
records
Stored data or albums
journals · memoirs · entries · minutes · transcripts · yearbook · tally · ledger · accounts · testimony
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
- archivesStored historical documents
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- traditionCustom passed through generations
lore · testament · lineage · forebears · antiquity · relics · artifacts · oral tradition · collective memory · generational
- historianshistorians, annalists, historiographer, historiographers, Herodotus
- creativesartist, artists, painter, painters, illustrators
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
- Elizabethan writersplaywrights, poets, sonneteers, dramatists, pamphleteers
- Historical Sourcesannalists, historiographers, biographers, medieval scribes, hagiographies
chroniclersfiction writers
Creators of imaginary narratives
novelists · fabulists · fantasists · mythmakers · fiction authors
chroniclerscensors
Those who suppress content
revisionists · suppressors · redactors · concealers · silencers
- medieval chroniclesHistorical records from feudal era
- chronicles of narnia
- ancient chroniclesOld written event records
- Anglo-Saxon ChronicleMedieval English historical annals
- Primary ChronicleMedieval Kyivan historical record
- family chroniclesRecords of ancestral history