Writing any form of history draws on a range of definitions, as well as biographical, geographical and other detail that may not fit seamlessly into the main body of the narrative. Historians, therefore, usually address the issue by inserting the material in footnotes, which solves the initial problem, although the solution is often a partial one.
Since footnotes generally contain references to sources as well as explanations, definitions and supporting details they are often tucked away at the end of either the particular chapter or article or the whole book.
For someone who likes to be able to check these things, both of those locations raise issues, and for someone who wants to check details, locating the footnotes at the bottom of the page where the reference occurs will always be the preferred option.
One could, of course, place the explanatory material at the foot of the page, with references to sources located at the back of the text, but that requires different systems of indicating where the content sits (a number and a keyboard symbol, for example).
Given the proprietor's preference for everything at the bottom of the page, that's where the reader will find them in Little House of Concrete publications, in both PDF and iBook formats.
That, in turn, raises issues relating to recent trends in the content delivered by education systems.
The first is the poisonous notion that since we don't know what factual information will be relevant in, say, twenty years' time, teachers should avoid a focus on things like facts and dates.
Associated with that notion, the way in which History has been subsumed into a broader curriculum element called something like Studies of Society and the Environment (SOSE) along with elements of Geography, Economics, Anthropology and Environmental Science (among other disciplines) limits the amount of historical background in most people's primary and secondary schooling.
Some observers will dismiss that complaint with an airy "It's all out there on the internet, anyway, so that's not a problem,"
When you're looking for little details, it often isn't "out there" or, if it is, finding it will involve digging through a vast range of what your search engine thinks you might be looking for and then sorting the facts from the fantasy, misinterpretation or the historical equivalent of what we have come to know as false news.
As a courtesy to readers, the editorial policy at The Little House of Concrete is to place footnotes at the bottom of the page, and include enough detail to give the average reader the essential information with a hyperlink to more thorough explanation in the next section of the Little House of Concrete website.
Where the text contains additional references to the same individual, event or object, the name appears in oblique format, usually with an embedded hyperlink to the same content in this section of the website.