Teaching takes place on Saturdays and Sundays at the Institute of Continuing Education on the following dates: 15-16 February 2020 and 14-15 March 2020 This led to a BBC television series Landscapes of England which examined in more detail how human influence has greatly shaped the landscape of twelve distinct regions in England, the first series in 1976 and the second in 1978. [11] For the final episode, Hoskins talks passionately about his home county of Devon and his home city of Exeter. [1] Honours and memorials [ edit ] Hoskins, W. G. (1973). English Landscapes. How to read the man-made scenery of England. BBC. ISBN 0-563-12407-5.

Foreword" in West, John. Village Records (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962) ISBN 0-85033-444-6 It is illustrated with 82 monochrome plates, mostly photographs by Hoskins himself, and 17 maps or plans. It has appeared in at least 35 editions and reprints in English and other languages. William George Hoskins CBE FBA (22 May 1908 – 11 January 1992) was an English local historian who founded the first university department of English Local History. His great contribution to the study of history was in the field of landscape history.The last chapter of the body of the book – if Chapter 10 is considered more or less an epilogue – covers towns seen as part of the English landscape. Hoskins justifies this on the grounds that understanding towns brings pleasure. He describes in turn planned towns, the open-field town, and the market town. Towns were planned as early as Norman times, Abbot Baldwin planning Bury St Edmunds between 1066 and 1086; Stratford-on-Avon was laid out in 1196. Another burst of town planning came with the spa towns in the late 18th century, and of new industrial towns like Middlesbrough and Barrow-in-Furness in the mid 19th century. Open-field towns like Nottingham, Leicester, and Stamford grew naturally in their own open fields, but were trapped by pasture rights from growing in the 19th century, giving Nottingham slums, and Leicester a problem that it just managed to solve, growing across its fields: while Stamford stopped growing entirely, becoming fossilised as what Hoskins calls a museum piece of a beautiful 17th and 18th century town. [19] Finally, the market towns like Marlborough grew up around their often large and handsome market places, which are however of any number of shapes. Parliamentary Enclosure and the Landscape [ edit ] Orchards around Canterbury, Kent in the 'Garden of England' on 1945 one-inch Ordnance Survey map. Some fields and orchards appear to have been enclosed directly from the woods to the west of the town in mediaeval times. The network of Roman roads to the town had been joined by a network of five railway lines.

a b Boyd, William (11 May 2013). "William Boyd: rereading The Making of the English Landscape by W. G. Hoskins". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 May 2014. Main article: The Making of the English Landscape In The Making of the English Landscape, Hoskins explains features like the distinctive ridge and furrow pattern in open field system farming, seen here at Wood Stanway, Gloucestershire. access resources and submit assignments through ICE Online, the Institute’s virtual learning environment. No previous experience in the subject is necessary and the course is open to anyone with an interest in the subject area.During the course you will submit a termly,3,500-4,000 word assignment further details of which are given in the course guide.