Charles Phythian-Adams

Charles Vevers Phythian-Adams (born 28 July 1937) is a local historian and the former head of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester.

Of a gentry family, he was the eldest of three sons of Rev. William John Telia Phythian-Adams (1888–1967),, and Adela (née Robinson). He was educated at Marlborough College and Hertford College, Oxford, where he took an M.A.

Selected publications

 * Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580–1850: Cultural Provinces and English Local History
 * Desolation of a City: Coventry and the Urban Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
 * Re-thinking English Local History
 * Land of the Cumbrians: A Study of British Provincial Origins, AD 400–1120
 * The Norman Conquest of Leicestershire and Rutland
 * Local History and Folklore: A New Framework