Hello everyone and welcome to the history of the

History of England. Today I have a special treat for you and interview with a

man called Stephen Milesson who is a historian for the lovely Victoria

County history and a landscape historian to boot. I happened to meet Stephen

when he took a module on an English social and local history course that I

did and instead and in fact which I'm still doing which is incidentally why I

started in flicking so much social history on your wall because I'd been

loving the course and Stephen's module was fantastic and at the time Stephen

I think you and Stuart Brock were working on a project the subject of which

we're going to talk a bit about today and from which you are publishing a book

very shortly I think you also asked us for title ideas and we weren't very good

at that so anyway hello Stephen and welcome to the history of England.

Hi David thanks very much for having me on and unless we forget to tell

everybody the title of your new book is Present Perceptions of Landscape South

Oxfordshire 500 to 1650 so Stephen could I ask you to tell everybody about

yourself and then maybe we can talk about what are you trying to achieve with

the book that's about four questions I said I was more than an interview.

Thanks David yeah so I mean I've spent years now as a as a landscape historian

doing a lot of the traditional things that landscape historians do that are

really important like you know trying to reconstruct the landscape and it's

development over time to see what that might tell us about the people who actually

lived in it and I've written other things I've written about deer parks which

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