Charles Vevers Phythian-Adams (born 28 July 1937)[ 1] [ 2] local historian and the former head of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester .[ 3]
Of a gentry family, he was the eldest of three sons of Rev. William John Telia Phythian-Adams [Wikidata (1888–1967), DSO MC Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford , where he took an M.A. [ 1] [ 4]
Selected publications
Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580–1850: Cultural Provinces and English Local History Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages [ 5] Re-thinking English Local History [ 6] Land of the Cumbrians: A Study of British Provincial Origins, AD 400–1120 The Norman Conquest of Leicestershire and Rutland Local History and Folklore: A New Framework
References
^ a b Burke's Landed Gentry , 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, p. 2.^ Chinn, Carl (2003). Birmingham: Bibliography of a City . Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press. p. 8. ^ "History of the Centre — University of Leicester" . 2.le.ac.uk . Retrieved 2 December 2017 .^ Teachers of History in the Universities and Polytechnics of the United Kingdom , Joyce M. Horn, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 1996, p. 51^ Dyer, Alan (1 October 1982). "Charles Phythian-Adams. Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages . (Past and Present Publications.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1979. Pp. xx, 350. $35.00" . The American Historical Review . 87 (4). doi :10.1086/ahr/87.4.1070-a . Retrieved 2 December 2017 . ^ Williamson, Tom (1989). "General and Thematic – Phythian-Adams Charles, Rethinking English Local History, (Department of English Local History Occasional Papers, Fourth Series, 1). Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1987. 58pp. £5.95" . Urban History . 16 : 186– 188. doi :10.1017/S096392680000924X . S2CID 144745132 . Retrieved 2 December 2017 – via Cambridge Core.
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