Harold James Dyos (1921–1978) was a British historian, known for his contributions to

urban history Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, urb ...

. 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 The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

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_lab ...

. 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. He wrote historiographical essays and occasional case studies, especially on the Victorian slum. 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.Richard Rodger, ''The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century'' (2004), p. 452. He became Chairman of the

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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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