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Celebrating Leicester by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67Leicester is built upon the work of the innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers of past centuries. Henry Walker looked for a meat substitute during rationing after the Second World War and created the... -
Secret Leicester by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67There is a history of Leicester that is hidden from view, or simply not recognised today because it is so familiar. There are Norman and medieval arches below landmark buildings, mosaics beneath the... -
Leicester Pubs by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.13Leicester's pubs have always been more than mere watering holes. They are where businesses were created, battle plans drawn up and where murderers once faced up to their crimes. Richard III spent... -
Paranormal Leicester by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67Leicester is an old town with a long history reaching back across two thousand years of human activity and experience. Historically, it is a very well-documented town. Leicester has a rich... -
Leicester in 50 Buildings by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67From its origins as a major Roman settlement to its current status as one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the UK, Leicester has a proud and distinctive identity. This extraordinary history... -
Leicester Through Time by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Leicester Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Leicester, the famous streets and... -
Leicester History Tour by Stephen Butt
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.74Leicester History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this East Midlands city. Local author Stephen Butt guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous... -
Leicester: A Potted History by Stephen Butt 9781398130289
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Leicester's history can be traced back to an Iron Age settlement by the River Soar and a subsequent Roman town where the Fosse Way crossed the river. Medieval Leicester flourished around its Norman... -
Loughborough Through Time by Stephen Butt 9781445615264
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Loughborough is more than a market town, although the market is still held, twice-weekly, in the heart of the town, and is over seven hundred years old. The town's university is a world leader in... -
Kibworth Through Time by Stephen Butt 9781445603865
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90The history of Kibworth Beauchamp, Kibworth Harcourt and Smeeton Westerby is well-documented. These three villages in south Leicestershire share a long and often dramatic past in which their... -
Rutland Through Time by Stephen Butt 9781848689015
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Rutland is at the very heart of England. It is England's smallest historic county, less than twenty miles in distance from north to south or east to west, a patchwork of incredibly picturesque and... -
Leicester in the 1970s: Ten Years that Changed a City by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67The 1970s was a decade of change. Supermarkets began to take over from traditional stores, high-rise office blocks appeared on the skyline, and Leicester's first shopping centre replaced familiar... -
Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67At the beginning of the 1950s, Leicester was an industrial city picking itself up from the debris of the Second World War. Compared with nearby Coventry, Leicester has been a relatively safe place,... -
A-Z of Leicester: Places-People-History by Stephen Butt 9781445664781
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90The city of Leicester can boast a long and distinguished history and has been at the very heart of the country's political and economic development for over two millennia. Evidence of Roman... -
Leicester in the 1960s: Ten Years that Changed a City by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.67For the people of Leicester, the 1960s was a decade of great social and economic change. It was to see a revolution in social attitudes reflected in the popular music of the time, in fashion, and in... -
Weston-Super-Mare Through Time Revised Edition by Stephen Butt 9781445652023
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €13.90Until the railways arrived, Weston-super-Mare was a town without a history. Weston grew into a major seaside resort from a little fishing village with just a handful of houses in under one hundred... -
Historic England: Leicester: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Stephen Butt 9781445683621
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.17This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest major cities and some of its county towns and villages. It provides a nostalgic look at Leicester's past and highlights the special character...