Dr David Hunt: The Making (and Remaking) of the Preston Landscape

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments

This podcast features video footage from a talk by Local Historian Dr. David Hunt on 23rd November 2005.

David Hunt was born in Preston in 1955. He studied Economic and Social history at Dundee, before taking an MA in Archaeology at Durham and returning to Dundee to study a PH.D in prehistoric archaeology. As curator of the small community museum at Leyland in 1982, he began to research and lecture on the history of the district with particular reference to the cotton industry. A series of local studies began with the ‘History of Leyland’ (1990), Preston (sponsored by the Borough Council for the 1992 Guild), and Walton-le-Dale (1997). From 1996-2002 he was the first Visiting Fellow in Local & Regional History at the University of Central Lancashire.

Previous publications include, ‘Preston: Centuries of Change’ (2003) and ‘The Wharncliffe Guide to the Local History of Preston’ (2005) and ‘Power, Politics and the People, A Social History of Preston North End FC’ (2000).

Credits: Dr. David Hunt

This talk was commissioned by Preston’s public art initiative In Certain Places. For more information please visit www.incertainplaces.org