"historical environment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to the setting or surroundings in which events from the past occurred. Example: "The ruins of the ancient city were preserved to give visitors a glimpse into the historical environment in which its inhabitants lived thousands of years ago."
Then there are those who work either for a national organisation or in local government caring for the historical environment.
Elmer Edgar Stoll, in Art and Artifice in Shakespeare (1933), stressed the ways in which the plays could be seen as constructs intimately connected with their historical environment.
New architecture, created in an existing, historical environment, should fit within its contextual surroundings – architecture like this could be considered as ordinary (in a positive sense).
"King Richard III is a figure of immense historical and cultural significance and the information that we hope to obtain from sequencing his genome will provide insights into the health and ancestry of the king and his historical environment.
Using the historical environment data, 1000 years TC tracks are simulated by the improved model and compared with features of the historical tracks in the western North Pacific (WNP) basin, the results verify that the developed model performs well.
Experience showed that integrating knowledge of the historical environment at the planning stage of restoration was essential, as it enabled the effective mitigation of any threat to archaeological features and sites.
The collection may also be useful in reconstructing historical environments, or understanding migration habits.
Wiley is a glittering propagandist who catapults the common black man and the occasional black woman into historical environments of rearing equines and colonial fleur-de-lis tapestries.
Dissatisfied with building and furnishing mere hotels, he envisions a vast edifice called the Grand Cosmo, featuring numerous exotic natural and historical environments.
The historical environments and the way crowds engage with those environments seem to have been the starting point of the whole game... Yes, I just wanted to get people in those beautiful environments.
"Historical Environments, Coordination and Consolidation in the U.S. Banking Industry, 1896-2001". (2006 William H. Newman and Louis R. Pondy Awards for best paper based on a dissertation.) Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2006).
