"historical relations" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can refer to the relationships between two parties which have been established over a long period of time. For example, "China and the United States have long-standing historical relations."
Rather than revealing a trademark style, Weese's work reflected his attention to setting, historical relations, and functional requirements.
He also spoke of "countries with which we share special historical relations" where Russia has "privileged interests".
In the beginning, the new role for Germany owed a great deal to historical relations and geography.
But for many Poles, whose historical relations with Jews are barely less troubled than with Germans (though for quite different reasons), he epitomised a longed-for reconciliation.
Languages are put into typological classes, with the reservation already mentioned, on the basis of certain overall similarities of structure irrespective of historical relations.
Exploring Anglo-Indian historical relations through the developing relationship between a British poetess and an Indian artist, the play took his career to the next level.
It covered works that bore no aesthetic or historical relation to each other.
The biggest problem here, however, is Steiner's failure to think her way through the historical relation between beauty and femininity.
It is true that the Arditi had a historical relation to Futurism — Marinetti revered them, and D'Annunzio used them, and many Arditi did become Fascists.
Selkirk receives only a couple of grudging mentions in Frank's book, since she prefers to believe that Defoe, "a congenital plagiarist", was cannibalising Knox's Historical Relation of Ceylon.
Read the full review Helen Gardner points out in The Business of Criticism (1959) that no work of art is autonomous but has "an historical relation to the author's other works".
