Terry R. Slater is a British geographer. He is an honorary senior research fellow in

Historical Geography Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with histor ...

at the

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, UK. Born in Bromley but raised in Charlton he was educated at

Hull University The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hu ...

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and the University of Birmingham. He joined the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in 1971 and continued until retirement. He devoted a lot of his spare time to the Church of England in

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that led to him being made an honorary Lay

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in 2005.

Research interests

Slater's research interests include: * English medieval town planning * Town-plan analysis * Medieval towns and the Church * European medieval urban development * North American urban development * Urban conservation * Historic Towns Atlases * Early Industrial Towns * Faith in the City

Publications

* 1980 ''The making of the Scottish countryside'' (edited with M L Parry) (Croom Helm, London) * 1982 ''Field and forest: an historical geography of Warwickshire and Worcestershire'' (edited with P J Jarvis) (Geo Books, Norwich) * 1990 ''The built form of western cities: essays for M R G Conzen on the occasion of his 80th birthday'' (University Press, Leicester) * 1996 ''Managing a Conurbation: Birmingham and its Region'' (edited with A. J. Gerrard) (Brewin Books, Studley) * 1997 ''A History of Warwickshire'' (Phillimore, Chichester) (2nd revised edition) * 1998 ''The Church in the Medieval'' Town (edited with G. Rosser) (Ashgate, Aldershot) 307 pp * 2000 ''Urban Decline 100-1600'' (ed.) (Ashgate, ALdershot) 325pp * 2002 ''Edgbaston Past'' (Phillimore, Chichester) * 2005 ''A Centenary History of the Diocese of Birmingham'' (Phillimore, Chichester) * 2007 ''A County of Small Towns: The Development of Hertfordshire's Urban Landscape to 1800'' (University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield) * 2016 '' The Pride of the Place. The Cathedral Church of St Philip, Birmingham, 1715-2015'' (Privately Published, Birmingham)

External links

Dr. Slater's University Page
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