- Maurice Beresford
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Maurice Warwick Beresford Born 6 February 1920[1]
Sutton Coldfield[1]Died 15 December 2005 (aged 85)[1]
Leeds[1]Nationality British Education Bishop Vesey's Grammar School[1] Alma mater Jesus College, Cambridge[1] Occupation historian, archaeologist Maurice Warwick Beresford (6 February 1920, Sutton Coldfield – 15 December 2005, Leeds) was an English economic historian and medieval archaeologist.
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Academic career
Born in Sutton Coldfield, Beresford was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He became a lecturer at Leeds University in 1948, becoming Professor of Economic History in 1959. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1985.
Research interests
In 1945, while working as a warden at an adult education centre, Beresford discovered the remains of the abandoned village of Bittesby.[2] Thus began a lifelong interest in the subject. Together with John Hurst he conducted archaeological excavations at the deserted village of Wharram Percy. This work became an important impetus for medieval archaeology in Britain and Europe.
As an undergraduate, he wrote a paper on parkland in Sutton Coldfield, the beginning of his interest in the interaction between the physical landscape and documents such as maps.[3] This interest led to his 1957 publication, History on the Ground.
Works
- Beresford, M.W. (1947). The Minute Book of a Leicestershire Enclosure. Leicester: Thornley Offprint.
- Beresford, M.W. (1951). "The Lost Villages of Yorkshire, Parts I to IV". Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society) 23.
- Beresford, M.W. (1951). The Lost Villages of Yorkshire, Parts I to IV Offprint from Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society.
- Beresford, M.W. (1951). The Lost Villages of Medieval England. London: Royal Geographical Society.
- Beresford, M.W. (1951). The Leeds Chamber of Commerce. With an Epilogue by S.J. Batchelder. Leeds: Leeds Chamber of Commerce.
- Beresford, M.W. (1954). The Lost Villages of England. London: Lutterworth Press.
- Beresford, M.W. (1961). Time and Place. Leeds: Leeds University Press.
- Beresford, M.W. (1957). "The Common Informer, the Penal Statutes and Economic Regulation". Economic History Review. second (Glasgow: Economic History Society) 10 (2): 222–238.
- Beresford, M.W. (1957). The Common Informer, the Penal Statutes and Economic Regulation (offprint from Economic History Review). Glasgow: Economic History Society.
- Beresford, M.W. (1963). Lay Subsidies and Poll Taxes. Chichester: Phillimore.
- Beresford, M.W. (1967). Leeds and its Region. Leeds: Leeds local executive committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Beresford, M.W. (1967). New Towns of the Middle Ages: Town Plantation in England, Wales and Gascony. London: Lutterworth Press. ISBN 0718806018.
- Beresford, M.W.; Hurst, J.G., eds (1971). Deserted Medieval Villages: Studies. Woking: Lutterworth Press. ISBN 0718813731.
- Beresford, M.W. (1971). History on the Ground: Six Studies in Maps and Landscapes. London: Methuen & Co. ISBN 0416151302.
- Beresford, M.W.; Finberg, H.P.R. (1973). English Medieval Boroughs: A Hand-List. Newton Abbott: David & Charles. ISBN 0715359975.
- Beresford, M.W. (1979). Medieval England: An Aerial Survey. Cambridge Air Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521219612.
- Beresford, M.W. (1979). West Riding County Council 1889-1974 Historical Studies. The King's England Press. ISBN 0861810007.
- Beresford, M.W. (1988). East End, West End: Face of Leeds During Urbanisation, 1684-1842. Publications of the Thoresby Society. Leeds: Thoresby Society. ISBN 0900741236.
- Beresford, M.W.; Hurst, J.G. (1990). Wharram Percy: Deserted Medieval Village. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 0713461144.
- Beresford, M.W. (2008). Leeds in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Miscellany). Leeds: Thoresby Society. ISBN 090074166X.
References
- ^ a b c d e f Glasscock, The Independent, 2006
- ^ Guardian obituary
- ^ Times obituary
Sources
- Cox, Harold (2007). "Maurice Beresford, 1920-2005". Rural History 18: 135–136.
- Dyer, Christopher (2005-12-22). "Maurice Beresford, A historian on the trail of England's lost villages". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/dec/22/guardianobituaries.obituaries.
- Glasscock, Robin (2006-01-14). "Professor Maurice Beresford, Economic historian and author of 'The Lost Villages of England' who pioneered 'landscape history'". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-maurice-beresford-522938.html.
- "Professor Maurice Beresford, Historian whose painstaking work on deserted medieval communites led to his celebrated book the Lost Villages of England". The Times. 2006-01-02. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article784127.ece.
External links
- Archival material relating to Maurice Beresford listed at the UK National Register of Archives
- Works by or about Maurice Beresford in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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