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 Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. It is predominantly t ...

Career

He graduated B.A. from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

in 1949, and gained a Ph.D. there in 1952. He taught his entire career at the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

. 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 Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...

Works

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

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