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Richard W. Hoyle (b. Shipley, W. Yorkshire, in 1958), who publishes as R. W. Hoyle, is a British Historian. He specialises in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century political history, and economic history and rural history over longer periods. He is currently Professor of Rural History at the University of Reading. In September he will take up the post of Director and General Editor of the Victoria County History.

Education
Hoyle was educated at Giggleswick School and Bradford College. He gained a First Class Honours degree in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Birmingham in 1981, and a D.Phil at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1987, under the supervision of Joan Thirsk. His thesis was entitled ‘Land and Landed Relations in Craven, Yorkshire, c.1520-1600’.

Career
Hoyle began his career as Research Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1985-9, punctuated by a temporary Lectureship at the University of Bristol, 1987-9. He was a British Academy post-doctoral research fellow for three years from 1 October 1989: fellow by special election, Magdalen College, Oxford, for the duration of the post. From 1993 to 1996 he was Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History, University of Central Lancashire, where he became Reader in History in 1996 and Professor of History in 1998. He was Professor of Rural History and Director of the Rural History Centre, University of Reading, 2000–3. Since then he has been Professor of Rural History in the School of History, University of Reading.

Hoyle was British Academy Research Reader, 2004-6, Giggleswick School Quincentennial Research Fellow, 2012-13, and visiting Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC in 2014.

Professional activities
Hoyle was Secretary of the British Agricultural History Society (BAHS), 1995-8, and has been Editor of Agricultural History Review since 1998. In 2010, as Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Rural History 2010 (the first international meeting of rural historians), when he became the founding President of the European Rural History Organisation (EuRHO).

Hoyle was Secretary and Treasurer of the List and Index Society, 1994-8, and has been its President since 1998.

Research interests
Hoyle has focused on British Rural History, especially 1450-1650, with particular emphasis on the history of peasant society, tenurial change, the management of estates, the use of law and the settlement of disputes in rural society, and long-term trends in the ownership of land in Britain. He has written about British political history of the sixteenth century, including rebellion and popular political activity, in particular, petitioning. He has also written about modern non-agricultural uses of the countryside, including field sports, access for recreation and water-gathering.

Honours
In 1988, Hoyle was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and in 1991 he was awarded the T. S. Ashton prize of the Economic History Society. In 2006 he was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).

Books

 * R. W. Hoyle (ed.), ‘Early Tudor Craven, Subsidies and Assessments, c.1510-1547’, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, 145 (1987)
 * R. W. Hoyle (ed.), The estates of the English Crown, 1558-1640 (xviii + 440, Cambridge University Press, 1992). [For the individual chapters see below]
 * R. W. Hoyle (ed.), ‘The Military Survey of Gloucestershire, 1522’, Gloucestershire Record Series VI (1993)
 * R. W. Hoyle, Tudor Taxation Returns: a guide for users (Public Record Office, 1994)
 * John Broad and Richard Hoyle (eds), Bernwood, the life and afterlife of a forest (University of Central Lancashire, Harris Papers, 2, 1997)
 * R. W. Hoyle, The Pilgrimage of Grace and the politics of the 1530s (xiv + 487 pp, OUP, 2001, paperback 2003).
 * R. W. Hoyle and H. R. T. Summerson (eds), A handlist of Star Chamber pleadings for northern England before 1558 (xvi + 120 pp. List and Index Society 299, 2004 for 2003)
 * R. W. Hoyle (ed.), Landscape, people and alternative agriculture: essays celebrating Joan Thirsk at Eighty (Agricultural History Rev., Supp. III, 2004), xvi +148 pp.
 * R. W. Hoyle, D. Tankard and S. R. Neal (eds), Heard before the King: registers of petitions to James I, 1603-1616 (xxvii + 384 pp., 2 vols, List and Index Society Supp. Ser., 38-39, 2006).
 * R. W. Hoyle (ed.), Our hunting fathers: field sports in England since 1850 (xvi + 320 pp., Carnegie P., 2007) [for individual essays in this volume see below]
 * H. R. French and R. W. Hoyle, The character of English Rural Society: Earls Colne, 1550-1750 (xxvi+ 301 pp., Manchester UP, 2007).
 * B. J. P. van Bavel and R. W. Hoyle (eds), Rural economy and society in north-western Europe, 500-2000, IV, Social relations, property and power (2010).
 * R. W. Hoyle (ed.), Custom, improvement and landscape in early modern Britain (Ashgate, 2011).
 * R. W. Hoyle (ed.), The farmer in England, 1650-1980 (Ashgate, 2013). [For the individual chapters see below]

Articles and book chapters

 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Lords, Tenants and Tenant Right’, Northern Hist. 20 (1984), pp. 38-63.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Thomas Masters’ Narrative of the Pilgrimage of Grace’, Northern Hist. 21 (1985), pp. 53-79.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The first earl of Cumberland: a reputation reassessed’, Northern Hist. 22 (1986), pp. 63-94.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘“An Ancient and Laudable Custom”? The development and definition of Tenant Right in the North-West in the sixteenth century’, Past and Present 116 (1987), pp. 24-55.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Monastic Leasing before the Dissolution: the evidence of Fountains Abbey and Bolton Priory’, Yorkshire Archaeological J. 61 (1989), pp. 111-138.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Tenure and the Land Market in early Modern England, or a late contribution to the Brenner Debate’, Economic History Rev. 43 (1990).
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘“Vain Projects”: the Crown and its copyholders in the reign of James I’, in J. Chartres and D. Hey (eds.), English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in honour of Joan Thirsk (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 73-101.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Thomas Lord Darcy and the Rothwell tenants, c.1526-1534’, Yorkshire Archaeological J. 63 (1991), pp. 85-108.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Henry Percy, sixth earl of Northumberland and the fall of the house of Percy, 1527-1537’, in The English Nobility in the sixteenth century, ed. G. W. Bernard (Manchester UP, 1992), pp. 180-211.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Introduction: aspects of the Crown's estate, c.1558-1640’; ‘Tenure on the Elizabethan estates’; ‘Customary tenure on the Elizabethan estates’; ‘“Shearing the hog”: the reform of the estates, c.1598-1640’; ‘Disafforestation and Drainage: the Crown as entrepreneur?’; ‘Reflections on the history of the Crown Lands, 1558-1640’, all in R. W. Hoyle (ed.), The Estates of the English Crown, 1558-1640 (1992)
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Advancing the Reformation in the North: orders from York High Commission, 1583 and 1592’, Northern Hist. 28 (1992), pp. 217-27.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Letters of the Cliffords, Lords Clifford and Earls of Cumberland, c.1496-1550’, Miscellany XXXI, Camden fourth Ser. 44 (1992), pp. 1-189.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Resistance and manipulation in early Tudor Lay Taxation: some evidence from the North’, Archives 90 (1993), pp. 158-175.
 * G. W. Bernard and R. W. Hoyle, ‘The instructions for the levying of the Amicable Grant, March 1525’, Historical Research 67 (1994), pp. 190-202
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Crown, Parliament and Taxation in sixteenth century England’, English Historical Rev. 109 (1994), pp. 1174-96.
 * R. W. Hoyle and H. Summerson, ‘The earl of Derby and the deposition of the abbot of Furness in 1514’, Northern Hist. 30 (1994) pp. 184-192.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The origins of the Dissolution of the Monasteries’, Historical J., 38 (1995), pp. 275-305.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The land-family bond in early modern England’, Past and Present 146 (1995), pp. 151-173.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘War and Public Finance’ in D. MacCulloch (ed.), The reign of Henry VIII (Macmillan, Problems in Focus, 1995), pp. 75-100.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The earl, the archbishop and the council: The affray near Fulford, May 1504’, in R. E. Archer and S. Walker (eds.), Rulers and Ruled in late Medieval England: essays presented to Gerald Harriss (1995), pp. 239-56.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Thomas Lord Wharton’s parks at Ravenstonedale and Wharton’, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland AAS 95 (1995), pp. 111-18.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘central courts’, ‘central government’, ‘crown estates’, ‘local government’ and ‘taxation’, all in D. Hey (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History (1996, revised second edition 2008)
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The medieval forest landscape’ and ‘The forest under the Dynhams’ in (ed. and contrib.) Bernwood, The Life and Afterlife of a Forest (University of Central Lancashire, Harris Papers 2, 1997)
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Place and Public Finance’, in ‘The Eltonian Legacy’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, fifth ser., 7, (1997), pp. 197-215
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Urban Decay and Civic Lobbying: the crisis in York’s finances, 1525-1536’, Northern Hist. 34 (1998), pp. 83-108.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Taxation and the Mid-Tudor Crisis’, Economic History Rev., 51 (1998), pp. 649-75.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Faction, Feud and Reconciliation amongst the northern English Nobility, 1525-1569’, History 84 (1999), pp. 590-613.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The land market of a Pennine manor: Slaidburn, 1660-1780’, Continuity and Change 14 (1999), pp. 349-83.
 * H. R. French and R. W. Hoyle, ‘Agrarian agitation in mid-sixteenth century Norfolk: a petition of 1553’, Historical J., 44 (2001), pp. 223-238
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The cattle herds and sheep flocks of the earls of Cumberland in the 1560s’, Yorkshire Archaeological J. 73 (2001), pp. 75-84
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The fortunes of the Tempest family of Bracewell and Bowling in the sixteenth-century’, Yorkshire Archaeological J., 74 (2002).
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The management of the estates of the Earls of Derby, 1575-1640: some new sources’, Northern Hist. 39 (2002), pp. 25-36.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Petitioning as popular politics in early sixteenth century England’, Historical Research 75 (2002), pp. 365-89.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘A new source for the rising of 1536 in north-west England’ [with A. J. L. Winchester], English Historical Rev., 118 (2003), pp. 120-29.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Woad in the 1580s: alternative agriculture in England and Ireland’ in Landscape, people and alternative agriculture: essays celebrating Joan Thirsk at Eighty, (Agricultural History Rev., supp. ser. III, 2004), pp. 56-73.
 * H. R. French and R. W. Hoyle, ‘English Individualism refuted and reasserted: the case of Earls Colne, Essex, 1550-1750’; Economic History Rev., 56 (2003), pp. 595-622.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Estate management, tenurial change and capitalist farming in sixteenth-century England’ in S. Cavaciocchi (ed.), Il mercatao della terra secc. XIII-XVIII (Institutio F. Datini, Prato, 2004), pp. 353-82.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Agriculture and Rural Society’ in N. Jones and R. Tittler (eds), The Blackwell companion to Tudor Britain (2004), pp. 311-29.
 * R. W. Hoyle and J. Ramsdale, ‘The Royal Progress of 1541, the North of England, and Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1534-42’, Northern Hist., 41 (2004), pp. 239-65.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Redefining copyhold in sixteenth century England: the case of timber rights’, in P. Hoppenbrouwers and B. van Bavel (eds.), Landholding, Land Tenure and Land Markets in north-west Europe, c.1200-1850 (Brepols, 2004), pp. 250-64.
 * Oxford DNB entries for Robert Aske (c.1500-37), Henry Clifford, first earl of Cumberland (c.1493-1542), Thomas Darcy, Lord Darcy (c.1467-1537), John Hussey, Lord Hussey (1465/6-1537), Sir William Musgrave (1506-1544), Henry Percy, fifth earl of Northumberland (1478-1527), Henry Percy, sixth earl of Northumberland (c.1502-37), Tempest family of Bowling and Bracewell (2004).
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘La disparation du petit fermier anglais; quel fut le rôle des siegneurs et des marchés?, in N. Vivier, Ruralité français et britannique, XIIIe-XXe siècles. Approches comparées (Rennes, 2005), pp. 167-186.
 * R. W. Hoyle and C. Spencer, ‘The Slaidburn poor pasture: changing configurations of popular politics in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century village’ Social Hist., 31 (2006), pp. 182-205.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Field sports as history’; ‘The royal family and the diversity of field sports, 1840-c.1980’ and ‘The fortunes of English foxhunting in the twentieth century: the case of the Oakley Hunt’ all in R. W. Hoyle, Our hunting fathers: field sports in England since 1850 (2007), respectively pp. 1-40, 41-71, 257-285.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘New markets and fairs in the Yorkshire Dales, 1550-1750’, in P. S. Barnwell and M. Palmer (eds), Landscape History after Hoskins, III, post medieval landscapes (Windgather P., 2007), pp. 93-106.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Élites fonciéres et progrès dans l’agriculture anglais, 1500-1750’ in N. Vivier (ed.), Élites et progrès agricole, xvi-xx siècle (2010), pp.19-43.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Rural economies under stress: “a world so altered”’, in N. Jones and S. Doran (eds), The Elizabethan World (2010), pp. 439-57.
 * B. van Bavel and R. W. Hoyle, ‘Introduction: social relations, property and power in the North Sea area, 500–2000’ (pp. 1-23); C. C. Dyer and R. W. Hoyle, ‘Britain, 1000-1750’ (pp. 51-78); P. Brassley, R. W. Hoyle,and M. E. Turner, ‘Britain 1750-2000’ (pp. 80-108); R. W. Hoyle, ‘Conclusion: reflections on power and property over the last millennium’ (pp. 349-75) in B. J. P. van Bavel and R. W. Hoyle (eds), Rural economy and society in north-western Europe, 500-2000, IV, Social relations, property and power (2010).
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Famine as agricultural catastrophe: the crisis of 1622-3 in east Lancashire’, Economic History Rev. 63 (2010), pp. 974-1002.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Securing access to England’s uplands: or how the 1945 revolution petered out’, in R. Santos, and R. Congost (eds.), Contexts of property: The social embeddedness of property rights to land in Europe, Turnhout, Brepols (2011), pp. 187-209.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Introduction: custom, improvement and anti-improvement’ and ‘Cromwell v Taverner: landlords, copyholders and the struggle to control memory in mid sixteenth-century Norfolk’, both in Hoyle (ed.), Custom, improvement and the landscape in early modern Britain (2011) (pp. 1-38 and 39-63 respectively).
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The Masters of Requests and the small change of Jacobean patronage’, English Historical Review 126 (2011), pp. 544-81.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Farmer, nonconformist minister and diarist: The world of Peter Walkden of Thornley in Lancashire, 1733-34’, Northern Hist. 48 (2011) pp. 271-94.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Who owned Earls Colne at the end of the eighteenth century? Or, how to squeeze more value out of the Land Tax’, The Local Historian 41 (2011), 267-77.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘The enclosure of Preston Moor and the creation of Moor Park in Preston’, Northern Hist., 49 (2012), pp. 281-302.
 * R. W. Hoyle, ‘Introduction: Recovering the Farmer’ and ‘Why was there no crisis in England in the 1690s?’, both in Hoyle (ed.), The Farmer in England (2013).