Abstract
It would be hard to publish a series of articles on founders of landscape history without a piece on the author of perhaps its most famous book, The Making of the English Landscape. This was however just part of the achievement of the man who revealed the 'historic civilisation' of rural, provincial England. In this article Alan Everitt – who knew Hoskins personally – assesses the career of a 'profoundly independent thinker', whose ability to make sense of an inchoate mass of evidence and to perceive history's underlying themes 'often approached genius'.
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