Abstract

Williatn George Hoskins, landscape historian (1908-1992) Roy Millward William Hoskins' long and prolific publishing Before attempting to trace the emergence of career began in 1929 when he was still a student the distinctive branch of History associated with at his local college, the University College of the his name, Landscape History, it is worthwhile to Southwest in Exeter, with a page-long contribution pick out the landmarks in William Hoskins' five on the Woollen Industry to Devon and Cornwall decades of publication. Three books stand out from all of his writing- Devon (1954) in 1be New Notes and Queries. His last major work, published in 1976, was 1be Age of Plunder, an economic Survey of England, edited by Professor Jack history of the sixteenth century whose very title Simmons, 1be Making of the English Landscape echoes the vigorous prose that has characterised (1955) and 1be Midland Peasant, an economic all his writing. The years between are filled with and social history of aLetcestershirevtllage, Wigston Magna (1957). In Devon, Hoskins was able to a vast volume ofbooks, articles in learned journals, express his feelings for his native county, a broadcast talks, numerous book reviews, notably in 1be Listener and 1be Economic