Sources for English Local History by W B Stephens

Sources for English Local History by W B Stephens

English local and regional history has attracted widespread attention in the last twenty-five to thirty years. Its study has expanded at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in universities, polytechnics, and at other institutions of higher education, and it has long retained its popularity as a subject for adult education classes. In schools the teaching of local history in its own right, and as an ingredient of general history, environmental studies, and local and social studies, is well established, and commonly involves the use of original sources. The expansion of genealogical studies into the wider area of family history has involved many individuals and groups in the investigation of the local conditions, which existed where former generations lived and, in this pursuit, increasing use of local records has been made. Many who seek to involve themselves in this work, however, find that they are ill-equipped in the knowledge of what sources exist, where they are to be found, or what techniques are suitable in making the best use of them.

W.B. STEPHENS is Honorary Research Fellow at University College, London. Until retirement he was Reader in the University of Leeds, where he was a sometime Dean of the Faculty of Education and a Curator of the University's Museum of Education.

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ISBN 13	9780521282130
ISBN 10	0521282136
Title	Sources for English Local History
Author	W B Stephens
Series	Sources Of History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1981-09-10
Number of pages	360
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