Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009). Christopher Dyer is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Leicester. He has written, edited, co-authored and co-edited many books, including William Dugdale, Historian, 1605-1686: His Life, his Writings and His County (Boydell, 2009).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors Foreword Sir William DugdaleAcknowledgementsAbbreviations IntroductionChristopher Dyer 1. The Dugdale Society: Its First Hundred YearsRobert Bearman 2. The Beginnings of Coventry Peter Coss 3. Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation?Richard Goddard 4. Studying Late Medieval Small Towns in Warwickshire 1920-2020Andrew Watkins 5. Rural Warwickshire in the Middle Ages: Society and LandscapeChristopher Dyer 6. Religion, Rebellion and Red Jackets: Changing Approaches to Society and Politics in Sixteenth-century Warwickshire Cathryn Enis7. Social Networks, Intellectual Affinities and Communal Harmony in Post-Reformation WarwickshireSusan M. Cogan 8. Discovering Warwickshire's Vernacular ArchitectureNat Alcock 9. Local History and the English Civil War: A View from WarwickshireAnn Hughes 10. Writing Histories of the Landed Elite in Georgian WarwickshireJon Stobart 11. The Victoria County History in WarwickshireJohn Beckett 12. Writing Women into the Political History of WarwickshireSarah Richardson 13. Shakespeare and the Warwickshire Landscape in the Age of the TouristCatherine Richardson Conclusion Christopher DyerIndex