4: The Techniques of Local History
Maurice Barley Senior Tutor,
Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Nottingham and Howard Colvin
Fellow and Lecturer in Modern History,
St. John's College, Oxford describe the excavation of a deserted medieval borough at Torksey in Lincolnshire-the techniques used and the contribution of amateur students-and discuss with LIONEL MUNBY. Editor of The Amateur Historian, the contribution of this project, which is not yet complete, to our knowledge of medieval boroughs in general and the East Midlands in particular.
Listeners may like to take the subject further by reading a booklet written by Professor V. H. Galbraith to accompany the series. It can be obtained from newsagents and booksellers, price Ss., or direct by sending a crossed cheque or postal order to [address removed]