1. S.J.D. Green, ‘Northern History and the History of the North: Forty Years On’,Northern History,xlii(1) (March 2005), and the other papers in that volume.
2. Kilvert’s Diary, 1870–1879, ed. W. Plomer (Harmondsworth, 1977), p. 15.
3. W.G. Hoskins,The Midland Peasant: Economic and Social History of a Leicestershire Village(Chichester, 2008), p. xxiv.
4. C.V. Phythian-Adams,Re-thinking English Local History(Leicester, 1987);Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580–1850: Cultural Provinces and English Local History, ed. C.V. Phythian-Adams (Leicester, 1993); J.V. Beckett,Writing Local History(Manchester, 2007); D. Dymond, ‘Does Local History have a Split Personality?’, inNew Directions In Local History Since Hoskins, ed. C. Dyer et al. (Hatfield, 2011), pp. 13–28.
5. As in J.D. Marshall,The Tyranny of the Discrete: A Discussion of the Problems of Local History in England(1997).