The changing face of English local history
By: edited by R.C. Richardson.
Contributors: Richardson, R. C.
Publisher: Ashgate; Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: England -- History, Local -- Historiography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Changing Face of English Local History 1 R.C. Richardson 2 William Camden and the Britannia 12 Stuart Piggott 3 John Stow and his London 30 M.J. Power 4 Robert Thoroton 52 M. W. Barley and K.S.S. Train 5 Hasted as Historian 69 Joan Thirsk 6 Writing Urban History in the Eighteenth Century: Milner's Winchester 83 R.C. Richardson 7 Between Antiquary and Academic: Local History in the Nineteenth Century 94 A.J. Kidd 8 The Local Historian and his Theme 110 H.PR. Finberg 9 English Local History: The Past and the Future 123 W.G. Hoskins 10 New Avenues in English Local History 139 Alan Everitt 11 A New History from Below: Computers and the Maturing of Local and Regional History 162 Pat Hudson 12 The Future for Local History: Boom or Recession? 179 Kevin Schurer 13 English Local History and American Local History: Some Comparisons 194 R.C. Richardson.