Canon Doctor Terry Slater is an honorary senior research fellow in Historical Geography at the University of Birmingham, 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 1971 and continued until retirement. He devoted a lot of his spare time to the Church of England in Birmingham that led to him being made an honorary Lay Canon [Canon] of [Birmingham Cathedral] in 2005.
Dr. Slater's research interests include:
English medieval town planningTown-plan analysisMedieval towns and the ChurchEuropean medieval urban developmentNorth American urban developmentUrban conservationHistoric Towns AtlasesEarly Industrial TownsFaith in the City1980 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 pp2000 Urban Decline 100-1600 (ed.) (Ashgate, ALdershot) 325pp2002 Edgbaston Past (Phillimore, Chichester)2005 A Centenary History of the Diocese of Birmingham (Phillimore, Chichester)2007 A County of Small Towns: The Development of Hertfordshire's Urban Landscape to 1800 (University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield)2016 The Pride of the Place. The Cathedral Church of St Philip, Birmingham, 1715-2015 (Privately Published, Birmingham)