"historical contribution" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a contribution made at any point in history, or to a contribution that has had a lasting impact throughout history. For example, "The Wright brothers made a significant historical contribution to the development of aviation technology."
Unlike Mr Kilroy-Silk, Lord Carey acknowledged the historical contribution of Muslims (who include most Arabs) but claimed they had not achieved anything significant more recently.
In the meantime it may want to update its website, where the section on women in the RCMP first praises their historical contribution "serving as wives".
This particular subject has been virtually unaddressed in historiographic studies so far, and Schmitter's paper is a substantial step towards the full appreciation of the historical contribution these early theories of word formation made to the development of the field.
Thus did her mother and father, a working-class London suffragette and a Woolwich Arsenal foreman, who was the son of a freed slave from Guyana, feature in a 2002 teaching pack celebrating black and Asian people's historical contribution to Greenwich.
The second major historical contribution to the theory of generalized quantifiers came from the 'inventor' of modern logic, Gottlob Frege, in the 1870s.
The Chinese government has talked about its one-child-per-family policy as being its historical contribution to curbing emissions (somewhat disingenuously, given that climate concern wasn't the reason for adopting it) - but it's just about alone on that.
The lesson is part of the Atlanta public schools' new multicultural curriculum, which concentrates on the historical contributions of blacks.
But he added: "I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion.
It also got rid of references to historical contributions, which show that rich countries bear a disproportionate responsibility.
Surely the historical contributions and initial investments from London-based groups have been accounted for by decades of healthy revenue from the extracted oil to date.
Their contributions go well beyond the historical contributions of mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering to medical practice that were largely equipment oriented.
