Canon Doctor Terry Slater is a honorary senior research fellow in Historical Geography

Historical geography

Historical geography is the study of the human, physical, fictional, theoretical, and "real" geographies of the past. Historical geography studies a wide variety of issues and topics. A common theme is the study of the geographies of the past and how a place or region changes through time...

 at the University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Birmingham, England. It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Birmingham Medical School and Mason Science College . Birmingham was the first Redbrick university to gain a charter and thus...

, UK. Born in Bromley but raised in Charlton he was educated at Hull University, University College, London and the University of Birmingham.

He joined the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in 1972 and continued until retirement. He devoted a lot of his spare time to the churches of Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 that led to him being made a lay preacher and later a Canon

Canon (priest)

A canon is a priest or minister who is a member of certain bodies of the Christian clergy subject to an ecclesiastical rule ....

in 2005.

Research interests

Dr. 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)
• 2004 Creating Spaces: Model settlements, Garden Cities and New Towns (edited with J.R. Bryson) (Ashgate, Aldershot) c.350pp
• 2004 An Historical Atlas of Warwickshire (Phillimore, Chichester)
• 2005 A Centenary History of the Diocese of Birmingham (Phillimore, Chichester)

External links

• Dr. Slater's University Page