• inscription: "W. G. Hoskins CBE FBA Dlitt 1908–1992 Historian of Devon, Exeter and the English Landscape Born Here 'Hic Amor, Haec Patria Est'." Hoskins wrote...
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  • Zealand William Hoskins (inventor) (1862–1934), American co-inventor of nichrome and modern billiard chalk W. G. Hoskins (William George Hoskins, 1908–1992)...
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    and the West Country. An example of a dispersed settlement given by W G Hoskins is Middle Barton in Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire. In some parts of England...
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    Essays in Leicestershire History, W. G. Hoskins. The Depopulation Returns for Leicestershire 1607, L. A. Parker. W. G. Hoskins. "Seven Deserted Village Sites...
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    from the original on 19 February 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2015. W. G. Hoskins, Devon, 1954 However, the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica records a date...
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    unlikely to erode further. In The Making of the English Landscape, W. G. Hoskins explains the origin of some English holloways as a pair of matched earth...
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    restored in the 1860s by the Moore-Stevens family and is, according to W. G. Hoskins, "entirely without interest". Ball clay is quarried in the east of the...
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  • with W.G. Hoskins is a BBC television documentary series broadcast on BBC Two in 1976 and 1978. Written and presented by Professor W.G. Hoskins, the series...
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    ("Brictric held the undermentioned lands and later Queen Matilda") W. G. Hoskins (1977). The Making of the English Landscape. Book Club Associates. pp...
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  • England and Wales". Institute of Historical Research. 18 June 2003. W. G. Hoskins (1984). Local History in England. Longman, London & New York. ISBN 9780582494138...
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  • Local history was a strength at Leicester University from 1930. Under W. G. Hoskins it actively promoted the Victoria county histories. He pushed for greater...
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    Literary Onomastics, 5.1 (2016), 1–16 (p. 9). Geoffrey, Vol. II, Ch. 11. W. G. Hoskins, "Leicester" History Today (Sep 1951) 1#9 pp 48–56. "Archaeology Data...
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  • nucleated villages originated in Anglo-Saxon England, but historian W. G. Hoskins discredits a previously held view that uniquely associated nucleated...
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    the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge. p. 1349. ISBN 1-57958-282-6. W. G. Hoskins. The Making of the English Landscape. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1955;...
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    Heritage, p. 23 Hoskins Heritage, pp. 23-24 Hoskins Heritage, pp. 24-26 Hoskins Heritage, pp. 26-28 Hoskins, W. G. (1950). The Heritage of Leicestershire...
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  • establishment as a formal academic discipline is usually credited to W. G. Hoskins who also popularised the subject with his book The Making of the English...
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    Channel 4 series, 2003 Britain AD, a three-part Channel 4 series, 2004 W. G. Hoskins, author of The Making of the English Landscape PRYOR, Francis Manning...
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  • constitutionalist Richard Hooker (1554–1600), Anglican theologian W. G. Hoskins (1908–1992), historian of the English landscape Ben Howard (b. 1987)...
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    estuary near the village. The parish church of St Andrew was described by W. G. Hoskins as 'one of the oldest and most interesting churches in Devon'. It was...
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  • (link) Hoskins, W. G. (1973). English Landscapes. How to read the man-made scenery of England. London: BBC. ISBN 0-563-12407-5. Hoskins, W. G. (1978)...
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    added in about 1670. The church has a notable broach spire, claimed by W. G. Hoskins to be the best of its kind in the country. Inside the church are many...
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  • Club & Archaeological Society. 66: 201–214. Beckett, J. V. (2011). "W. G. Hoskins, the Victoria County History, and the study of English local history"...
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    Retrieved 23 June 2014. Professor W G Hoskins (1955). The Making of the English Landscape. Book Club Associates. p. 52. "Dorset A–G". The Domesday Book Online...
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  • Hoffman, NASA astronaut and physicist Richard Hoggart, sociologist W. G. Hoskins, (1931–1952) (1965–1968), local historian, author of The Making of the...
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    Bates was the leading hosiery manufacturer. Wigston was the subject of W. G. Hoskins' pioneering historical study, The Midland Peasant (London: Macmillan...
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    the parish church of Welcombe, on the border of Devon and Cornwall. W. G. Hoskins writes "St Nectan's Chapel was one of the many medieval chapels in the...
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    (sociologist) Mark Fisher (21st century cultural theorist and philosopher) W. G. Hoskins (landscape historian) Jack Simmons (historian esp. of British railways)...
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    198, down from 335 in 1901, and 441 in 1801. The landscape historian W. G. Hoskins, writing in 1953, described the village as "an excellent example of...
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    himself from the crown the office of Keeper of Banwell Park. In 1955 W. G. Hoskins remarked that "the reconstruction of medieval parks and their boundaries...
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  • may be preferable". Other scholars preferring the River Camel include W. G. Hoskins, who put Hehil at Egloshayle on that river; Leonard Dutton, who suggested...
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