Christopher Dyer

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Christopher Charles Dyer CBE FBA (born 1944) is a Leverhulme Emeritus Professor of Regional and Local History and a former director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester, England. [1]

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He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours. [2]

Background

Educated at the University of Birmingham where he studied under Rodney Hilton, Dyer has taught at the Universities of Birmingham and Edinburgh, where he counted amongst his students the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown. He came to the University of Leicester in 2001. [1]

Work

Dyer is known as an historian of everyday life. His work examines the economic and social history of medieval life, with an emphasis on the English Midlands from the Saxon period through to the 16th century. He delivered the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford for 2000–01, titled "An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages". [1]

On 25 October 2013, Dyer presented his lecture "Corby, Northamptonshire and Beyond: The History of Industry in the Countryside" [3] at The Marc Fitch Lectures.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 "Dyer, Prof. Christopher Charles" . Who's Who . A & C Black.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 7.
  3. "Launch of volume VII – Victoria County History" . Retrieved 16 May 2017.