The University of Hertfordshire Press is about to publish “Histories of People and Landscape: Essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey”. Edited by Richard Hoyle, it will be released in a hardback edition at the beginning of March price £35.

David was the Sheffield and South Yorkshire historian of our times: he published what is likely to remain the standard account of Sheffield as well as accounts of the landscape of South Yorkshire and his beloved moors, and much more.

• Histories of People and Landscape
• Essays on the Sheffield Region in Memory of David Hey
• David Hey, 1938–2016: a tribute Charles Phythian-Adams
• Deer parks in South Yorkshire: the documentary and landscape evidence – Melvyn Jones
• The Sheffield cutlers and the earls of Shrewsbury: a new interpretation – Richard Hoyle
• Lord William Cavendish of Hardwick Hall (Derbyshire) and the wardship of Sir Francis Wortley of Wortley Hall (West Riding), 1604–1612 – Peter Edwards
• The steel industry in England, 1614–1740 – Dorian Gerhold
• Out of the shadows: searching for lost Domesday landscapes – Ian D. Rotherham
• Opposition to parliamentary enclosure in Nottinghamshire – John Beckett
• The rise and fall of a Peak District yeoman family: the Bagshaws of Hazlebadge, 1600–1942 – Alan Crosby
• The food production campaign in the First World War: the Derbyshire War Agricultural Committees, 1915–1919 – Nicola Verdon
• Boundary settlements and overlapping jurisdictions: marginal communities and Little Londons – John Broad
• Personal names and settlement in the south Yorkshire Pennines – George Redmonds

The book is available to pre-order from Waterstones and any local independent bookshop will be able to order it too. ISBN: 978-1-912260-39-3. A paperback edition is coming out in September price £18.99.