chronicler:
(plural: ‘chroniclers‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘chro’ are said with a ‘kro’ sound as in “cross”, and the second ‘c’ in this word is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “King” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person who writes down or maintains a chronicle; a recorder;
Ms Neel Kamal Puri, Chronicler of Patiala History, India
A chronicler is also called a diarist; however, a diarist is someone who may record simple and day-to-day issues but a chronicler is a professional who maintains a long records of some great phenomenon that happens at intervals over a long period of time.
Most chroniclers choose a particular topic or even that happens again and again but in different circumstances so that the next generations will come to know about its history.
We are fortunate to have these annalists, historians and chroniclers who spend their time, even lives in some cases, to follow up an issue and write it down over a long period of time, going to other places to compare such same happenings and including them for comparison or reference.
The writers of novels like Charles Dickens and stage and film producers can also be called chroniclers as they write and show us the events, in other words, the history that happened in the past.
