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“... 1972, Routledge and Kegan Paul published The Victorian City: Images and Realities, edited by H.J. Dyos and Michael Wolff, a Wagnerian epic in which history went to town in exuberant, zestful and flamboyant fashion. Understandably, the two volumes won immediate and widespread acclaim as a tour de force of entrepreneurial inspiration and editorial skill: ‘a ...”

“... urban historians have played an important part. The outstanding figure among them has been Jim Dyos. Before his death in 1978 at the age of 57 he was recognised as the focus of British urban history and its leading exponent. It has been rare among British historians for a single scholar both to sponsor and draw to himself a major field of study. Urban ...”

“... was busy writing at Frankfurt and Rawls at Harvard. This was an age of university expansion. H.J. Dyos built up urban studies at Leicester and Asa Briggs at Leeds; E.P. Thompson inspired young social historians at Warwick; Birmingham set up its Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, where Stuart Hall taught us to look at our social relations and practices ...”

“... British City, the collaborative project of a crack team of historians of urban life. H.J. (Jim) Dyos died in 1978, still in his fifties, but as the UK’s first professor of urban history and still more through his enthusiastic collaborations and magpie methods, he indelibly shaped the study of city life. Dyos was a ...”