New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins

Christopher Dyer, Andrew Hopper, Evelyn Lord, Nigel Tringham (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2011
University of Hertfordshire Press (Verlag)
978-1-907396-12-0 (ISBN)

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Local history in Britain can trace its origins back to the sixteenth century and before, but it was given inspiration and a new sense of direction in the 1950s and 60s by the work of W.G. Hoskins. This book marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his Local history in England which was designed to help people researching the history of their own villages and towns. It is the result of a collaboration between academic historians in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, which Hoskins founded, and the British Association for Local History, an organisation that brings together the thousands of people who are not professional academics but who practise local history. Taking the work of Hoskins as a starting point, the contributors show how local history is being researched and written today. Fifteen historians write about a variety of local history subjects which are significant in their own right but which also point to current trends in the subject. They show how local historians use their sources systematically, from the non-verbal evidence of buildings to various types of electronic resources.
All periods between the middle ages and the early twenty-first century are explored, as are many different parts of the country from Skye to the Kent coast. There are examples of local historians working on ethnic minorities, gender and the working class. Those who study localities use a variety of approaches, including those of social, economic, religious, legal, intellectual and cultural history, all of which are employed here. They are aware of the roots of their subject and examine the history of local history itself. Together, the editors and authors raise the various dilemmas which stimulate debates among local historians about the nature of the subject, its present health and the directions it will take in the next half century.

The editors represent the two bodies that brought the book together. Christopher Dyer and Andrew Hopper belong to Leicester University's Centre for English Local History, whilst, for the BALH, Evelyn Lord was until recently Course Director for the masters in Local History at Cambridge University, and Nigel Tringham is based at Keele University and is responsible for the Victoria County History for Staffordshire.

1 Does local history have a split personality? David Dymond 2 The great awakening of English local history, 1918-1939 C.P. Lewis 3 Twentieth-century labour histories Malcolm Chase 4 Parliamentary elections, 1950-2005, as a window on Northern English identity and regional devolution Steven Caunce 5 Locality and diversity: minority ethnic communities in the writing of Birmingham's local history Malcolm Dick 6 Hythe's butcher-graziers: their role in town and country in late medieval Kent Sheila Sweetinburgh 7 The houses of the Dronfield lead smelters and merchants, 1600-1730 David Hey 8 A community approaching crisis: Skye in the eighteenth century Edgar Miller 9 'By her labour': working wives in a Victorian provincial city Jane Howells 10 Religious cultures in conflict: a Salisbury parish during the English Reformation Claire Cross 11 The Court of High Commission and religious change in Elizabethan Yorkshire Emma Watson 12 From Philistines to Goths: Nonconformist chapel styles in Victorian England Edward Royle 13 Evangelicals in a 'Catholic' suburb: the founding of St Andrew's, North Oxford, 1899-1907 Mark Smith 14 The kings bench (crown side) in the long eighteenth century Ruth Paley 15 Local history in the twenty-first century: information communication technology, e-resources, grid computing, web 2.0, and a new paradigm Paul S. Ell

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.6.2011
Zusatzinfo	50 illustrations
Verlagsort	Hatfield
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-907396-12-8 / 1907396128
ISBN-13	978-1-907396-12-0 / 9781907396120
Zustand	Neuware