During the course you will assessed by a series of assignments, totalling 3000-4000 words per unit. Further details will be provided in the course guide. The work has been widely admired, but also described as grandly emotive, populist, and openly anti-modernist. Writers have praised the book for helping them understand and interpret the landscape in which they lived.

After the award of his doctorate Hoskins was appointed Reader in English Local History at University College, Leicester (1938). [4] a b c Boyd, William (11 May 2013). "William Boyd: rereading The Making of the English Landscape by WG Hoskins". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 May 2014. The rest of the chapter covers Pre-Roman, Western (i.e. Celtic) and Roman Britain. He estimates very roughly that 750,000 acres at most were in use as arable or grassland in Roman times, compared to 27 million acres in 1914. Local historian Graeme White, in The Medieval English Landscape, 1400–1540, calls Hoskins' book "brilliantly-crafted" and observes that "Although this famously railed against the 'England of the arterial by-pass, treeless and stinking of diesel oil' – along with much else belonging to the mid-twentieth century – the fact that national car ownership more than doubled during the 1950s made this a subject whose time had come." [23]Hoskins, W. G. (1973). English Landscapes. How to read the man-made scenery of England. BBC. ISBN 0-563-12407-5.

He became the first professor of local history at the University of Leicester in 1965 when he was appointed Hatton Professor of English History. He retired in 1968. [4]The book has been well received by critics. Penelope Lively describes the book as "a marvellous, robust, opinionated account of the landscape as narrative". [7] William Boyd describes it as "an absolute trailblazer, a revolution." [8] Boyd notes that W. H. Auden "revered" the book, and that reading Hoskins had enabled him to "read" a landscape as a "historical palimpsest". [8] Local historian Graeme White calls the book "brilliantly-crafted". [9] Later career and television work [ edit ]

a b c d e f "Professor W G Hoskins CBE – historian". Exeter Memories. 2 May 2011 . Retrieved 26 May 2014. Cooper, Timothy (2008). "Making History: British environmental history". History.ac.uk . Retrieved 26 May 2014. All students are expected to take an active part in the course and submit work showing evidence of learning. Your learning will be enhanced by: Paul Johnson, writing in The Spectator, said that the book "was for me an eye-opener, as it was for many people. It told us of the extent to which our landscape had been made by man, not God, and taught us to look much more observantly at it." [24] An assessment [ edit ] A row of huts with water tower and radio mast in the United States Air Force base at Upper Heyford, from where "the obscene shape of the atom-bomber" [3] deplored by Hoskins flew daily over Oxfordshire

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You will learn how to present your ideas both through speaking and writing. You will also have access to online support through our virtual learning environment, which will accelerate your learning and enhance your experience of the course. access resources and submit assignments through ICE Online, the Institute’s virtual learning environment. For the 2023-2024 Academic Year this course is being taught remotely. This means there will be no face-to-face teaching and you will not need to be present in person in Cambridge, although there is an expectation that you will attend synchronous teaching sessions. The course content will be delivered, and the learning outcomes met, through the use of video-based teaching platforms and a dedicated course Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). For the 2022-2023 Academic Year this course is being taught remotely. This means there will be no face-to-face teaching and you will not need to be present in person in Cambridge, although there is an expectation that you will attend synchronous teaching sessions. The course content will be delivered, and the learning outcomes met, through the use of video-based teaching platforms and a dedicated course Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). in four equal instalments (credit/debit card only): the first on enrolment, and the second, third and final instalment being taken 1 month, 3 months and 5 months after the course start date. The exact dates will be confirmed in the student’s individual booking details