English Local History: An Introduction
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.
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English Local History: An Introduction
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.
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English Local History: An Introduction

English Local History: An Introduction

by Kate Tiller
English Local History: An Introduction

English Local History: An Introduction

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781783275243
Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date: 08/21/2020
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 of Kellogg 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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 2020 Edition ix

Introduction 1

1 Beginning Local History 5

Where to begin

The earliest local history accounts

The county historians

Parish and town histories

Modern local history

The VCH

Modern trends and developments

Landscape history

Demography

History from below

Cultural history

Microhistory

Post-millennium

2 The Saxon Centuries: Prehistory into History 33

The fieldwork repertoire

How to find the results of previous fieldwork

Name studies

Villages, settlement and provinces

Politics, religion and documents

Late Saxon England: A single nation?

Using Saxon sources: Landscape and documents

3 Medieval Local Communities 67

Contexts and Themes

Manors, lords and tenants

Settlement and landscape

The evidence of medieval buildings

Church and community

Crown and community

Urban life

Local Case Studies

A 'classic' manorial community

North country contrasts

Family and household discovered 'Deserted' settlements

Town studies

Sources and Methods

Domesday Book

A medieval charter

Principal sources for medieval local history: A checklist

4 Degree, Priority and Place: Early Modern Communities, C.1530-C.1750 131

Contexts and Themes

Manor and parish

Community and social structure

Demography: Growth, stagnation and human choices

The urban scene

Beliefs and institutions: The role of religion

Changing lordship

Local Case Studies

Contrasting communities: Agrarian roots

Urban lives: Households and occupations

Poverty, piety and power

Sources and Methods

Probate inventories

Buildings

Parish registers

Principal sources for early modern local history: A checklist

5 Traditional Into Modern: Local Lives C. 1750-1914 191

Contexts and Themes

Patterns of economic change

Population: Growth or decline?

Town and country

Rural change and parliamentary enclosure

Roughs and respectables: Society, culture, class and identity

Coping with change: The growth of government

Coping with change: Christians and Utilitarians

Responses to change: Working-class life

Different phases? Pre- and post-1850

Local Case Studies

Transitions and the pace of change

Urban experiences: Coketown and Preston

Family, household and community

Rural experiences: Varying villages

Sources and Methods

Principal sources for modern English local history: A checklist

6 The Twentieth Century and Beyond 259

A unique period

Developments in twentieth-century local studies

Local Case Studies

Elmdon

Ask the fellows who cut the hay

Other local community studies of the twentieth century

Contexts and Themes

Sources and Methods

Official records

Personal testimonies

Conclusion

Principal sources for twentieth-century local history: A checklist

Notes to the Text 283

Further Reading 293

Index 299

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