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.

Career

He graduated B.A. from the London School of Economics in 1949, and gained a Ph.D. there in 1952. He taught his entire career at the University of Leicester. He was promoted to Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester in 1973, but it was a personal title; there was no department of urban history. He founded the ''Urban History Newsletter'' in 1963. The ''Newsletter'' was largely replaced by the ''Urban History Yearbook'' from 1974, which later became ''Urban History''. His students included

David Reeder David Reeder (May 5, 1931 – August 1, 2005) was a British historian at the University of Leicester. After graduating from Nunthorpe Grammar School he won a scholarship at the University of Durham, where he served as Editor of Palatinate. He wa ...

; he influenced others, including

David Cannadine Sir David Nicholas Cannadine (born 7 September 1950) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton Unive ...

. He wrote historiographical essays and occasional case studies, especially on the Victorian

slum A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inh ...

. 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 A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area, which may include commercial and mixed-use, that is primarily a residential area. A suburb can exist either as part of a larger city/urban area or as a separate ...

of a city.Richard Rodger, ''The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century'' (2004), p. 452. He became Chairman of the Victorian Society in 1976, succeeding Nikolaus Pevsner.

Works

*''Victorian Suburb'' (1961) *''Exploring the Urban Past: Essays in Urban History'' edited by David Cannadine and David Reeder (1982)

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