'Bottom Up' Approach

Historians:

- Hans Peter Broedel

- Robin Briggs

- Robert Thurston

- Margaret Murray

- Wolfgang Behringer

Advantages:

- historical accounts of the 'common people' 

- shows the lives of the masses

- concentrates of the lives of ordinary people, looking at their experiences and their perspectives 

- focuses on society at large

- deals with social structures and social change 

- looks at the masses' conditions of work and ways of life (families, households, local communities, urbanisation, mobility,…