New Directions in Local History since Hoskins / edited by Christopher Dyer [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dyer, Christopher, 1944- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

File conversion (Computer science).

Portable document software.

Adobe Acrobat.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hatfield, England : University of Hertfordshire Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Utilizing the techniques developed by renowned local historian W. G. Hoskins in his landmark study published 50 years ago, Local History in England, this book demonstrates how local history has evolved as a discipline over the last half century. Fifteen historians write about a variety of local history subjects that are significant in their own right but which also point to current trends in the field. They show how local historians use their sources systematically, from the nonverbal evidence of buildings to various types of electronic sources. All periods between the middle ages

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Plates; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: local history in the twenty-first century; The practice of local history; 1 Does local history have a split personality?; 2 The great awakening of English local history, 1918-1939; Region, class and ethnic diversity; 3 Twentieth-century labour histories; 4 Parliamentary elections, 1950-2005, as a window on Northern English identity and regional devolution; 5 Locality and diversity: minority ethnic communities in the writing of Birmingham's local history

Making a living in town and country6 Hythe's butcher-graziers: their role in town and country in late medieval Kent; 7 The houses of the Dronfield lead smelters and merchants, 1600-1730; 8 A community approaching crisis: Skye in the eighteenth century; 9 'By her labour': working wives in a Victorian provincial city; Religious culture and belief; 10 Religious cultures in conflict: a Salisbury parish during the English Reformation; 11 The Court of High Commission and religious change in Elizabethan Yorkshire; 12 From Philistines to Goths: Nonconformist chapel styles in Victorian England

13 Evangelicals in a 'Catholic' suburb: the founding of St Andrew's, North Oxford, 1899-1907Sources, methods and techniques; 14 The kings bench (crown side) in the long eighteenth century; 15 Local history in the twenty-first century: information communication technology, e-resources, grid computing, Web 2.0and a new paradigm; Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-907396-52-7

OCLC:

753480524