- Terry Slater
Canon Doctor Terry Slater is a reader in
Historical Geography at theUniversity of Birmingham ,UK and also lectures. Born in Bromley but raised in Charlton he was educated atHull University ,University College, London and the University of Birmingham.He got his first lecturing job at Birmingham in 1972 where he still works. Over the years he has, in his free time, devoted a lot of time to the churches of
Birmingham . This led to him being made first of all a lay preacher and then a Canon in 2005.Research Interests
Dr. Slater's research interests include:
*English medieval town planning
*Town-plan analysis
*Medieval towns and the Church
*European medieval urban development
*North American urban development
*Urban conservation
*Historic Towns Atlases
*Early Industrial Towns
*Faith in the CityPublications
*1980 "The making of the Scottish countryside" (edited with M L Parry) (Croom Helm, London)
*1982 "Field and forest: an historical geography of Warwickshire and Worcestershire" (edited with P J Jarvis) (Geo Books, Norwich)
*1990 "The built form of western cities: essays for M R G Conzen on the occasion of his 80th birthday" (University Press, Leicester)
*1996 "Managing a Conurbation: Birmingham and its Region" (edited with A. J. Gerrard) (Brewin Books, Studley)
*1997 "A History of Warwickshire" (Phillimore, Chichester) (2nd revised edition)
*1998 "The Church in the Medieval" Town (edited with G. Rosser) (Ashgate, Aldershot) 307 pp
*2000 "Urban Decline 100-1600" (ed.) (Ashgate, ALdershot) 325pp
*2002 "Edgbaston Past" (Phillimore, Chichester)
*2004 "Creating Spaces: Model settlements, Garden Cities and New Towns" (edited with J.R. Bryson) (Ashgate, Aldershot) c.350pp
*2004 "An Historical Atlas of Warwickshire" (Phillimore, Chichester)
*2005 "A Centenary History of the Diocese of Birmingham" (Phillimore, Chichester)External links
* [http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/people/index.asp?offset=40&ID=105#105 Dr. Slater's University Page]
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