Exploring Urban History: Sources for Local Historians (Batsford Local History Series)

by Stephen Porter

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The sources available for studying the history of towns and cities are both extensive and diverse. Stephen Porter here presents a guide to where the relevant primary source materials and secondary works are mostly readily available, how to interpret them once found and how far to accept the evidence they produce.

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Stephen Porter is a historian who previously worked for the Royal Commission on the Historical Manuscripts of England, later English Heritage. He has written numerous books and articles, including The Great Fire of London and The Great Plague. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
941History & geographyHistory of EuropeBritish Isles
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HT133Social sciencesCommunities. Classes. RacesCommunities. Classes. RacesUrban groups. The city. Urban sociology

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