For over 20 years, the Family and Community Historical Research Society, FACHRS, has challenged the notion that universities should have a near monopoly on the construction, ownership, validation and transmission of knowledge. Its central strategy, of publishing research derived from its aggregation of data from connected local research projects, has its immediate roots in an Open University module, Family & Community History: 19th and 20th centuries, DA301. This emphasised research construction co-operation within a social scientific framework. The roots of the FACHRS also lie in the development, since Victorian times, of sociable, collaborative and co-operative local history projects. The FACHRS’s progress was framed by its engagement with communications and database technology and digitisation during a period when demarcation lines and epistemic identities, both within universities and outside them, dissolved and reformed.

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“支持基层积极的实证研究”：家庭和社区历史研究会

20 多年来，家庭和社区历史研究协会 (FACHRS) 一直在挑战大学应该几乎垄断知识的构建、所有权、验证和传播的观念。其核心战略，即从相关的本地研究项目的数据聚合中发布研究成果，其直接根源在于开放大学模块“家庭与社区历史：19 世纪和 20 世纪”DA301。这强调了社会科学框架内的研究建设合作。FACHRS 的根源还在于自维多利亚时代以来，社交、协作和合作的地方历史项目的发展。