English Local History (eBook)

An Introduction

Kate Tiller (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2020
328 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
978-1-78744-837-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The classic guide to exploring English local history, brought up to date and expanded.This is a book for anyone wanting to explore local history in England. It summarises, in an accessible and authoritative way, current knowledge and approaches, bringing together and illustrating the key sources and evidence, the skills and tools, the contexts and interpretations for successive periods. Case studies show these ingredients in use, combined to create histories of people and place over time. A standard text since its first edition in 1992, this new edition features extensive fresh material, updated to reflect additional availability of evidence, changing interpretations, new tools and skills (not least the use of IT), and developments in the time periods and topics tackled by local historians. The interdisciplinary character of twenty-first-century local, family and community history is a prominent feature. Complemented by 163 illustrations, this book offers an unrivalled introduction tounderstanding and researching local history. KATE TILLER is Reader Emerita in English Local History at Oxford University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society and a founding fellow ofKellogg College, Oxford. Over a career of 40 years, based at Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, she developed and implemented courses in local history from community evening classes to new master's and doctoral programmes. In 2019, she was appointed OBE for services to local history.

Inhalt

Introduction
Beginning Local History
The Saxon Centuries: Prehistory into History
Medieval Local Communities
Degree, Priority and Place: Early modern communities, c.1530-c.1750
Traditional into Modern: Local lives c.1750-1914
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
Further Reading

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.8.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 163 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Schlagworte: British history • Community Studies • England • Historical research • Historical Sources • Historiography • Local History • Regional Development
• ISBN-10: 1-78744-837-1 / 1787448371
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78744-837-7 / 9781787448377