Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
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 to understanding and researching local history.
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 to understanding and researching local history.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 328
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Boydell Press
Publication Date:
21 August 2020
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.69 in
ISBN: 9781783275243
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, European history, HISTORY / Historical Geography, HISTORY / Historiography, Historical geography
This is a much expanded, and improved, edition of what soon established itself as perhaps the best introduction to English local history when first published in 1992. It has both breadth and depth, is rich in examples and illustrations, and is deeply informed. [...] [it is noted] how well written the book is, managing that rare trick of being accessible and, above all, interesting as well as authoritative.
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
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