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Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this
third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take
account of the developments in the subject, and includes an
extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of
illustrations as in previous editions.
Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this
third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take
account of the developments in the subject, and includes an
extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of
illustrations as in previous editions.
Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain. It was an inhabited
place some two hundred years before the Romans came, and people
have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years.
The High Street has been in continuous use as a thoroughfare
throughout that long period. For centuries Exeter was one of the
largest and wealthiest cities in the kingdom and has always been
the Mother-City of the South West. In this book, first published in
1960 and acclaimed as a 'small masterpiece', the author traces the
essential historic development and character of a leading
provincial centre. He describes its adventure from a small Celtic
village to a modern city, with particular reference to its social
history, to the lives and surroundings of ordinary people, to the
buildings and landscapes of the past. Above all, he is concerned
with the recent past and devotes three long chapters to the 19th
and 20th centuries. W.G. Hoskins died in 1992. The task of bringing
the work up to date and preparing text and illustrations for this
new edition of a classic work has been undertaken by Hazel Harvey,
a distinguished local historian of Exeter. Much of Exeter has been
destroyed, but much of the historic past of this entrancing city
still remains. Hoskins' incomparable text is supported by a new
selection of illustrations and maps, with an appendix on the
street-names of the city and place-names in the neighbourhood. This
book will be as valuable to the visitor as to the citizen of
Exeter, for it tells where to look for the memorials of the past
and for the history that lies behind them.
W.G. Hoskins was one of the most original and influential British
historians of the twentieth century. He realised that landscapes
are the richest record we have of the past, and with his
masterpiece, The Making of the English Landscape, he changed
forever how we experience the places we live and work in.Where we
see a picturesque scene of rolling hills, distant spires and wooded
valleys, Hoskins shows us the line of a Bronze Age trackway, the
ghostly impression of an open-field system, the gridiron pattern of
an industrial town, or the footprint of a Roman villa. By revealing
these traces of the past, Hoskins enables us to appreciate
different landscapes as if they were pieces of music, a series of
compositions which enrich our understanding of the symphonic
whole.While planning and building our future villages and towns, in
both green and urban places, this pioneering account reminds us why
we must be sensitive to the land and its past as we leave our own
marks in England's historical landscape.
Exeter's tax assessments from the seventeenth century give an
important insight into the population and economy of one of
England's principal cities in this period. They tell us about
housing, population density, the distributionof wealth across the
city, and the incomes of Exeter's citizens. They also show the ways
in which the wealth of Exeter's citizens changed during the course
of the century. These accounts, edited with an introduction by the
well-known Devon historian W. G. Hoskins, will interest historians
of early modern towns and society, as well as local historians.
DEVON has a great sense of its own separate history. Throughout the
centuries it was relatively isolated, with two long coastlines and
comparatively short land boundaries, both ancient: Celtic Cornwall
to the west and the rest of England to the east. Until the 19th
century communications were very poor and Devon developed a
distinct culture, economy, dialect and landscape - contributing to
its strong local pride and character. That Devon is different is a
fact, and helps explain the interest in its history shown by Devon
folk and their many visitors. A great history deserves a great
historian. W.G. Hoskins was a Devon man and one of England's
foremost economic and social historians. He pioneered the study of
landscape history and initiated the modern approach to local
history. His seminal work Devon is universally regarded as a major
masterpiece of local history, both in its research and its writing.
Throughout the half century since its first appearance it has been
reprinted many times, has been held up as a model throughout
Britain, and has always remained the unchallenged, essential,
authoritative history of Devon. This new, revised edition, with an
up-to-date Introduction, a new, extensive bibliography, the most
recent population and similar statistical figures, reproduces the
author's classic text in full, including the Gazetteer - at over
two hundred pages a book in itself, describing every place, hamlet
to city, in the county - and his superb collection of contemporary
photographs. The book is packed with detailed information, as
remarkable in its high quality as its huge quantity. This new
edition will be warmly welcomed by all who know and love Devon -
England's most popular county.
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