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New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins.
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 histo...
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Chicago :
University Of Hertfordshire Press,
2011.
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- 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.