The classic guide to exploring English local history, brought up to date and expanded. This is a book for anyone wanting to explore local history in England. It summarises, in an accessible and authoritative way, current knowledge and approaches, bringing together and illustrating the key sources and evidence, the skills and tools, the contexts and interpretations for successive periods. Case studies show these ingredients in use, combined to create histories of people and place over time. A standard text since its first edition in 1992, this new edition features extensive fresh material, updated to reflect additional availability of evidence, changing interpretations, new tools and skills (not least the use of IT), and developments in the time periods and topics tackled by local historians. The interdisciplinary character of twenty-first-century local, family and community history is a prominent feature. Complemented by 163 illustrations, this book offers an unrivalled introduction to understanding and researching local history.

About the Author
KATE TILLER is Reader Emerita in English Local History at Oxford University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society and a founding fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Over a career of 40 years, based at Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, she developed and implemented courses in local history from community evening classes to new master's and doctoral programmes. In 2019, she was appointed OBE for services to local history.

Reviews
This is a much expanded, and improved, edition of what soon established itself as perhaps the best introduction to English local history when first published in 1992. It has both breadth and depth, is rich in examples and illustrations, and is deeply informed. [...] [it is noted] how well written the book is, managing that rare trick of being accessible and, above all, interesting as well as authoritative. -- MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT RESEARCH GROUP
Those readers who know this book from its earlier editions will need no urging to advance their experience eighteen years by reading this latest version; those readers new to this work should be encouraged by this review to read and use it as a guide to their own studies. [...] To all who aspire to undertake such local studies, this book remains a great boon, enhanced by this welcome new edition. -- Edward Royle * Family & Community History *
This book ought to be read by every self-respecting local historian, and every member of FACHRS. The blurb on the back cover for once is perfectly correct: Tiller 'offers an unrivalled introduction to understanding and researching local history'. Her book can be read with profit not just by the beginner, but even by the most experienced local historians. * FACHRS *
This book deserves to sit in the most-used and conveniently-to-hand spot in any local historian's bookshelf, whether s/he is starting out or has already made inroads into a chosen place or topic. I suspect that anyone looking through Kate Tiller's comprehensive checklists of resources will find fresh fields to explore, and be grateful for that, and the suggested 'further reading' would provide even the most jaded researcher with new ideas to pursue. -- Local Historian
It is an important piece of writing, which supports the work of those who appreciate local and regional history and promote and project its value. It should be in every school and library as well as in the hands of every practitioner. -- Midland History



Book Information
ISBN 9781783275243
Author Kate Tiller
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint The Boydell Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g