New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins

Taking the work of Hoskins as a starting point, the contributors show how local history is being researched and written today. Fifteen historians write about a variety of local history subjects which are significant in their own right but which also point to current trends in the subject.

1 Does local history have a split personality? David Dymond 2 The great awakening of English local history, 1918-1939 C.P. Lewis 3 Twentieth-century labour histories Malcolm Chase 4 Parliamentary elections, 1950-2005, as a window on Northern English identity and regional devolution Steven Caunce 5 Locality and diversity: minority ethnic communities in the writing of Birmingham's local history Malcolm Dick 6 Hythe's butcher-graziers: their role in town and country in late medieval Kent Sheila Sweetinburgh 7 The houses of the Dronfield lead smelters and merchants, 1600-1730 David Hey 8 A community approaching crisis: Skye in the eighteenth century Edgar Miller 9 'By her labour': working wives in a Victorian provincial city Jane Howells 10 Religious cultures in conflict: a Salisbury parish during the English Reformation Claire Cross 11 The Court of High Commission and religious change in Elizabethan Yorkshire Emma Watson 12 From Philistines to Goths: Nonconformist chapel styles in Victorian England Edward Royle 13 Evangelicals in a 'Catholic' suburb: the founding of St Andrew's, North Oxford, 1899-1907 Mark Smith 14 The kings bench (crown side) in the long eighteenth century Ruth Paley 15 Local history in the twenty-first century: information communication technology, e-resources, grid computing, web 2.0, and a new paradigm Paul S. Ell