unhistories

Noun

unhistory (countable and uncountable, plural unhistories)

1. The stories of ordinary people who are not considered historical.
   • The mill-house, like the family of the miller, is for Hardy a representative part of the unhistory of the country, what we now know as local history, and which many consider to be the only sure basis of any historical knowledge;1986, Norman Page, Thomas Hardy Annual - Issue 4, page 72
2. The suppressed history of controversial events.
   • Somehow, in this eerie age of unhistory, the whole meaning and purpose of life has been twisted around, warped and distorted.1971, Mortimer Lipsky, Never Again War: The Case for World Government, page 168
3. Inaccurate representations of the past that are presented as history.
   • The history, or rather the unhistory, of Stonehenge, is, paradoxical though it seems, a long and old story.1895, Abraham Van Doren Honeyman, Coaching in Merrie England