Shaping the Past: Theme, Time and Place in Local History Essays in Honour of David Dymond

Lord, Evelyn; Amor, Nicholas R.

ISBN 10: 1912260220 / ISBN 13: 9781912260225

Edité par University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield, 2020

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Hardback. 215pp. Frontis. Illus. 1st UK edition 2020. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. A very pleasing copy. (q33).

N° de réf. du vendeur Q33BKGRY1111

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Shaping the Past: Theme, Time and Place in Local History Essays in Honour of David Dymond
• Éditeur: University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1912260220
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781912260225
• Reliure: Hard Cover
• Édition: 1st UK Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Local History
  • East Anglia

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Synopsis

“This book is a fitting way to commemorate the excellent work of David Dymond in many areas of local history and the inspiration that he has given to so many aspiring local historians over the years.” Hillary Walker, The Local Historian

Dr David Dymond is one of Britain's most highly respected local historians. He is a Vice President of the British Association for Local History and of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, President of the Suffolk Records Society, and an honorary fellow of the University of East Anglia.

The author of several valued books about the practice of local history, notably Researching and Writing History, his contribution to the study of local history generally, and in his adopted county of Suffolk in particular, has been immensely influential.

The essays in this Festschrift are offered as a token of esteem and affection by colleagues, friends and students of David. They consist of new research on aspects of local history from the medieval period to the twentieth century, with a particular focus on Eastern England.

Taken together, they illustrate David's philosophy of local history (that it should be ‘wide‐ranging, inclusive, integrating and interdisciplinary’).

In his introduction, Professor Mark Bailey pays tribute to the breadth and depth of David's scholarship and to his passion for teaching. These essays, in turn, aim to reflect the values that have always characterised David's approach: a focus on primary sources meticulously interrogated and a concern to avoid the pitfalls of parochialism by remaining sensitive to the wider influences upon communities.

From papers exploring aspects of medieval religion, the contributors move on to medieval trade and industry in Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire.

Two studies of the structures of local elites provide fresh insights into communities at later periods, while the final selection of essays consider fascinating and wide-ranging aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century commerce, society and culture.

The very varied contributions to this collection aptly reflect the breadth and depth of David Dymond's own scholarship whilst offering a rich choice of material to anyone with an interest in local history.

À propos de l?auteur

Dr Evelyn Lord was the course director for the University of Cambridge's Master of Studies in Local History and tutor for local history at the University of Cambridge, Institute for Continuing Education. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently chair of the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History and a member of the Cambridgeshire Records Society executive committee.

Dr Nicholas R. Amor is an honorary fellow of the University of East Anglia and the University of Suffolk and chairman of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and history.