Harold James Dyos

Harold James Dyos (1921-1978) was a British historian, known for his contributions to urban history. He wrote many essays addressing the issue of urbanization.

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Career

He graduated B.A. from the London School of Economics in 1949, and gained a Ph.D. there in 1952.[1]

He was Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester, and founded the Urban History Newsletter in 1963.[2] The Newsletter was largely replaced by the Urban History Yearbook from 1974, which later became Urban History.[3][4] His students included David Reeder;[5][6] he influenced others, including David Cannadine.[7]

He wrote in particular on the Victorian slum.[8] His joint essay with Reeder Slums and Suburbs postulated a relationship at the level of flows of capital between the appearance, often rapid, of central urban slums, and the development of the peripheral suburbs of a city.[9][10]

He became Chairman of The Victorian Society in 1976, succeeding Nikolaus Pevsner.[3]

Works

Notes

  1. ^ *Article on Dyos by Sheridan Gilley, pp. 331-2 in Kelly Boyd (editor), Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999).
  2. ^ Biographical note, p. 910 of H. J. Dyos, Michael Wolff, The Victorian City: Images and Realities (1999).
  3. ^ a b http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/resources/dyos.html
  4. ^ http://www.uoguelph.ca/history/urban/mod01.html
  5. ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-reeder-514205.html
  6. ^ http://www.le.ac.uk/press/ebulletin/features/urbanhistory.html
  7. ^ http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/interviews/Cannadine_David.html
  8. ^ H. J. Dyos, The Slums of Victorian London, Victorian Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Sep., 1967), pp. 5-40.
  9. ^ H. J. Dyos and D. A. Reeder, Slums and Suburbs, pp. 356-386 in H.J. Dyos and M. Wolff (editors), The Victorian City: images and realities vol. 1 (1973).
  10. ^ Richard Rodger, The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century (2004), p. 452.

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