Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and its Historians

Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009). Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009).

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Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Sir William Dugdale
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction
Christopher Dyer

1. The Dugdale Society: Its First Hundred Years
Robert Bearman

2. The Beginnings of Coventry
Peter Coss

3. Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation?
Richard Goddard

4. Studying Late Medieval Small Towns in Warwickshire 1920-2020
Andrew Watkins

5. Rural Warwickshire in the Middle Ages: Society and Landscape
Christopher Dyer

6. Religion, Rebellion and Red Jackets: Changing Approaches to Society and Politics in Sixteenth-century Warwickshire
Cathryn Enis

7. Social Networks, Intellectual Affinities and Communal Harmony in Post-Reformation Warwickshire
Susan M. Cogan

8. Discovering Warwickshire's Vernacular Architecture
Nat Alcock

9. Local History and the English Civil War: A View from Warwickshire
Ann Hughes

10. Writing Histories of the Landed Elite in Georgian Warwickshire
Jon Stobart

11. The Victoria County History in Warwickshire
John Beckett

12. Writing Women into the Political History of Warwickshire
Sarah Richardson

13. Shakespeare and the Warwickshire Landscape in the Age of the Tourist
Catherine Richardson

Conclusion
Christopher Dyer

Index