iarjelIARJELIARJEL2708-5120https://doi.org/10.47310/iajel.2021.v02i02.005Hard Times: For These Times in Tandem with Social HistoryMonicaJoshiNajran University, KSA, Saudi ArabiaSocial history is a subfield of history. History probes happenings along with people. Hard Times: For These Times, better known as Hard Times was first published in 1854. It looks over English society and holds up to ridicule the social and economic circumstances of the time. For a writer of fiction accompanied by a deep understanding of history-local, particular, cultural as well as social, the hard contentions of make-believe narrative in addition to historicity of experience become apparent. Supposing and so-to- speak, both history and imaginative writing branch off and come together simultaneously. The more measured their dissociation in the artistic taste, the more complete their closeness in historical denotations. It is readily apparent in Charles John Huffam Dickens’ Hard Times, on a higher or lower plane. Unquestionably, the plot immersing the agriculture-cycles is really striking as well as genuine and when it is discerned not as an aesthetic structure alone but as an advance towards history, it flashes forward to the transformation of historiography in Spengler and Toynbee. Hard Times, which is a contentious novel becomes involved in matters, for instance, education along with industrialization. It puts forward moral beliefs and fairness questioning the presiding theories of the age.