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Louis Francis Salzman (26 March 1878 – 4 April 1971) was a British
economic historian Economic history is the study of history using methodological tools from economics or with a special attention to economic phenomena. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of ...
who specialised in the
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Life and career

He was born in
Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
in 1878, the son of Dr. F. W. Salzmann, and educated at
Haileybury College Haileybury is a co-educational public school (fee-charging boarding and day school for 11- to 18-year-olds) located in Hertford Heath, Hertfordshire. It is a member of the Rugby Group and enrols pupils at the 11+, 13+ and 16+ stages of edu ...
and
Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 students and fellows. It is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from ...
. He studied natural sciences, aiming to make a career in medicine; however, after inheriting a small private income, he gave this up to work in history. He married Maud Russell in 1904, and had three sons and two daughters. He did not serve in the
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, through ill-health; he taught at St George's School, Harpenden from 1916 to 1918. In 1918 he moved to Cambridge, and there tutored students. In 1934, his marriage to Maud was dissolved, and he moved to London, shortly thereafter moving to
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in Sussex, where he lived to his death. His first book, ''The History of the Parish of Hailsham'', was published in 1901. He then began his work in economic history, writing on Sussex industries for the
Victoria County History The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History (VCH), is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of Englan ...
. In 1913 he published ''English Industries of the Middle Ages'', and in 1931 ''English Trade in the Middle Ages''. The building industry had been omitted from ''English Industries'', though it was touched on in an enlarged edition ten years later, and in 1952 he produced ''A Documentary History of Building in England Down to 1540'', a comprehensive study of both the practical and organisational aspects of the industry. In 1934 Salzman succeeded W. H. Page as general editor of the Victoria County History. He held the post until 1949, overseeing the production of fifteen volumes, covering Oxfordshire and Warwickshire as well as Sussex, and was succeeded by Ralph Pugh. Salzman's other academic works included biographies of
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(1914) and
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(1968), as well as the general studies ''English Life in the Middle Ages'' (1926), ''England in Tudor Times'' (1926), and ''A Survey of English History'' (1930). He wrote a pair of popular collections – ''Medieval Byways'' (1913) and ''More Medieval Byways'' (1926) – of short essays on individual topics, "cookery" or "memories", built around extracts from contemporary records and providing an insight into medieval life seen from an unusual angle. In 1926 he published a play, ''The Girdle of Venus''. In 1909 he became the honorary editor of the ''
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'', the Sussex Archaeological Society's annual journal; he held the post for the next fifty years and was the first professional archaeologist or historian to edit the journal. He was president of the society from 1954 to 1956, and published a history of it in 1946. In 1955, he was appointed as a
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, and in 1965 awarded an honorary doctorate by the
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References


Sources

*"Salzman, Louis Francis". ''Who Was Who 1897–2006''. (2007) *Ralph B. Pugh, "Salzman, Louis Francis (1878–1971)", rev., ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'',
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, 2004


External links

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