history vs annals

history and annals both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
history	Yes	No	No	No
annals	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, annals is a hyponym of history; that is, annals is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than history:

history (noun)	annals (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	a chronological account of events in successive years
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge	reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
a record or narrative description of past events
the aggregate of past events
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future