New Directions in Local History Since Hoskins

Christopher Dyer is the Leverhulme Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local History and the former director of the Center for English Local History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Deserted Villages Revisited and Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society: The Estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680–1540. Andrew Hopper is a lecturer in English local history at the University of Leicester. Evelyn Lord is the staff tutor in local history for the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. She is review editor of the Local Historian and the author of The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism, and Secret Societies and Knights Templar in Britain. Nigel Tringham is a lecturer in Anglo-Saxon and medieval history at the University of Keele and the county editor responsible for writing the Victoria County History of Staffordshire. He is also a member of the Council and Management Committee of the British Association for Local History.