Charles Vevers Phythian-Adams (28 July 1937 – 13 May 2025) was an English local historian and the head of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.[1]
Life and career
editPhythian-Adams was born on 28 July 1937.[2][3] Of a gentry family, he was the eldest of three sons of the 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.[2][4]
Phythian-Adams died on 13 May 2025, at the age of 87.[5]
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[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
edit- ↑ "History of the Centre — University of Leicester". 2.le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "Charles Phythian-Adams | About the University of Leicester". University of Leicester. Retrieved 15 May 2025.
- ↑ 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): 1070–1071. 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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