Charles Phythian-Adams

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, 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

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References

Burke's Landed Gentry 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, p. 2
Birmingham: Bibliography of a City, Carl Chinn, University of Birmingham Press, 2003, p. 8
"History of the Centre — University of Leicester". 2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
Burke's Landed Gentry 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, p. 2
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. <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.
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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[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.