Alan Milner Everitt, FBA, FRHistS (17 August 1926 – 8 December 2008) was a British local historian.
He was a leading figure in the development of English provincial history in the forty years after the Second World War.
That year, Everitt joined the University of Leicester as a research assistant to the economic and social historian Joan Thirsk.
In 1968, he succeeded W. G. Hoskins as Hatton Professor of English Local History, a chair he held until retiring due to ill health in 1982.
Everitt was the author or editor of many books on English local history, including the ones listed below.