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Book SynopsisThis book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history. -- .
Table of ContentsList of illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
I Introduction
IIThe origins of local history
The chorographic tradition
William Camden
Christopher Saxton
County histories
Dugdale and Thoroton
Natural history
III Antiquaries at large: the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Topographical studies
Archaeology
County histories
Collaborative county histories
IV The parish and the town
Parish histories
Town histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Town histories of the eighteenth century
Town histories of the nineteenth century
V Local history marginalised
Clubs and societies
Archaeology
Professional history
National history
VI Local History and national History, 1880-1945
The study of the village
Economic history, local history and adult education
The Victoria County History
Record publishing
VII W.G. Hoskins and the founding of modern local history
The Annales School
W.G. Hoskins
The Making of the English Landscape
Post-war developments
Local history and the parish
The Midland Peasant
Farming regions
Regions without boundaries
VIII New Approaches: the region and the community
Counties and parishes
Microhistory
Regions
Pays
Settlement
Regional flexibility
Regions and industrialising society
Cultural identity
Post-modernism
IX New Approaches: family history, towns, landscape and other specialisms
Family history
Urban history
Landscape history
Vernacular architecture
Industrial archaeology
Oral testimony
Place-names
Heritage
X The sources revolution
The National Archives
County archive offices
Local studies libraries
The family
The land
The house
Source materials and the VCH
XI Local history today
Defining local history
Understanding past communities
Training
Guidebooks
Group research
Good local history
Issues, geographies and time periods
XII Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
