Charles Vevers Phythian-Adams (28 July 1937 – 13 May 2025) was an English local historian and the head of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.
Life and career Phythian-Adams was born on 28 July 1937.Burke's Landed Gentry, 18th edition, vol. 2, ed. Peter Townend, 1969, p. 2. Of a gentry family, he was the eldest of three sons of the Rev. (1888–1967), , and Adela (née Robinson). He was educated at Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, where he took an M.A.Teachers of History in the Universities and Polytechnics of the United Kingdom, Joyce M. Horn, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 1996, p. 51
Phythian-Adams died on 13 May 2025, at the age of 87.
Selected publications Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580–1850: Cultural Provinces and English Local History Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Re-thinking English Local History Land of the Cumbrians: A Study of British Provincial Origins, AD 400–1120 The Norman Conquest of Leicestershire and Rutland Local History and Folklore: A New Framework
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