Paperback: This is a book for anyone wanting to explore local history in England.
It summarizes, in an accessible and authoritative way, current knowledge and approaches to English local history.
The principal sources of evidence available to local historians are introduced, and suggestions given as to how they can be used in a critical and informed way.
General themes and questions for each historical period, combined with specific case studies, highlight contrasting experiences, and indicate how the available raw materials can be pieced together effectively.
This book will be invaluable to all those who wish to understand more of the history around them, encouraged by the advice offered and by an added understanding of questions shared with their predecessors and present-day fellow local historians.
Complemented by over a hundred photographs, this book offers an excellent guide and introduction to discovering the history that surrounds us.
About the author: Dr Kate Tiller is a Founding Fellow of Kellog College, University of Oxford, and Director of Studies in Local History at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. Her academic fields are British social and local history, with particular research interests in English rural change post-1760, in the social history of landscape, and in religion and community in Britain since 1730. She also writes on the academic practice of local history and continues to teach and examine for a range of graduate courses, and to supervise master's and DPhil students. She is a keen sports fan, since 2001 the first woman member of the committee of Oxford University Rugby Football Club, and currently University Senior Member for OURFC.
English Local History: An Introduction was first published in 1992 and is seriously recommended to either undergraduate or adult history students.
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