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Dear All
The death of Prof Maurice Beresford has been recently reported. He was a
British economic historian who did much work of interest to
archaeologists. He was a pioneer of landscape history and especially the
study of deserted villages after WWII- an area in which he co-operated
closely with archaeologists. He will be remembered by those Americans (I
know several of you are on the list) who dug at the deserted Yorkshire
village of Wharram Percy which he ran for many decades with the late
John Hurst. More of you will have visited the site with myself and Kate
Giles in last January at SHA York His academic work will perhaps be
better known to us Europeans on this list. Classic books included The
Lost Villages of England, Deserted Village Studies (with Hurst),
medieval England from the Air (with St Joseph), New Towns of the Middle
Ages, and History on the Ground. His work though primarily medieval to
16th century also ranged as far as 19th century housing in Leeds.
paul courtney
Leicester
UK
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