John Beckett

Writing local history (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating book looks at how local history developed from the antiquarian county studies of the sixteenth century through the growth of 'professional' history in the nineteenth century, to the recent past. Concentrating on the past sixty years, it looks at the opening of archive offices, the invigorating influence of family history, the impact of adult education and other forms of lifelong learning. The author considers the debates generated by academics, including the divergence of views over local and regional issues, and the importance of standards set by the Victoria County History (VCH). Also discussed is the fragmentation of the subject. The antiquarian tradition included various subject areas that are now separate disciplines, among them industrial archaeology, name studies, family, landscape and urban history. This is an authoritative account of how local history has come to be one of the most popular and productive intellectual pastimes in our modern society. Written by a practitioner who has spent more than twenty years teaching local history to undergraduates and M.A. students, as well as lecturing to local history societies, John Beckett is currently Director of the VCH. A remarkable book that will be of great interest to students and scholars of local history as well as amateur and professional genealogists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847795137
• Artikelnr.: 42371858

Autorenporträt

John Beckett is Professor of English Regional History at the University of Nottingham and Director of the Victoria County History at the University of London

Inhaltsangabe

List 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