Charles Phythian-Adams

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Charles Vevers Phythian-Adams (born 28 July 1937)[1][2] is a local historian and the former head of the at the University of Leicester.[3]

Of a gentry family, the eldest of three sons of Rev. William John Telia Phythian-Adams (1888-1967), D.S.O., M.C., and Adela (née Robinson), he was educated at Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, where he took an M.A..[4][5]

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[6]
  • Re-thinking English Local History[7]
  • 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[]

  1. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, p. 2
  2. ^ Birmingham: Bibliography of a City, Carl Chinn, University of Birmingham Press, 2003, p. 8
  3. ^ "History of the Centre — University of Leicester". 2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  4. ^ Burke's Landed Gentry 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, p. 2
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ Dyer, Alan (1 October 1982). "Charles Phythian-Adams. <italic>Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages</italic>. (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.
  7. ^ 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. Retrieved 2 December 2017 – via Cambridge Core.


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