Charles Vevers Phythian-Adams (born 28 July 1937)[1][2] is a 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 (1888–1967), DSO, MC, and Adela (née Robinson). He was educated at Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, where he took an M.A.[1][4]
Selected publications
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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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