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W.G. Hoskins

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in Exeter, Devon, England

May 22, 1908

Died

January 11, 1992

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Average rating: 3.83 · 417 ratings · 52 reviews · 48 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Making of the English Landscape 3.94 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1955 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Plunder: The England of Henry VIII, 1500-47 3.40 avg rating — 95 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Local History in England 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2014 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Man's England 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fieldwork in Local History 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devon 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1954 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Thousand Years In Exeter 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1970 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Midland Peasant: The Economic and Social History of a Leicestshire Village 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1965 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chilterns to Black Country 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Devon and Its People really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Poets make the best topographers.”
― W.G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape

tags: landscape, observation, poets, topography

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“Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.”
― W.G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape

tags: england, homeland, landscape, observation

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