History Imagination and Magic across Leicestershire and Rutland

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time reveals all

history, imagination and a touch of magic
from Leicestershire in the English East Midlands
History, heritage and creativity in images
and words on six distinctive websites


Website design and content © Stephen Butt 2011
07982 845112   
info@stephenbutt.co.uk

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Front cover of Leicester Through Time by Stephen Butt

Leicester through time
Almost 200 images of Leicester with full colour on every page, published October 2009, tracing the changing face of Leicester from the 19th to the 21st Century

Front cover of Rutland Through Time by Stephen Butt

Rutland through Time
Archive images from the remarkable Jack Hart Collection in Rutland County Museum.  This is the first time that this rich collection has been made available to the general public and presented in the context of 21st Century Rutland  

Weston-super-Mare through Time
A record in old and new images of the changing face of this popular seaside resort over more than one hundred years. Published September 2011

Kibworth through Time
Fascinating images from the archives of the Kibworth History Society with the same views and locations today. A fascinating insight into the development of the Kibworth villages over more than a century 

Front cover of Central Leicester by Stephen Butt

Leicester in old images
First published by Tempus in 2005 and reprinted by the History Press in March 2009.  Central Leicester contains two hundred previously unpublished archive images of Leicester from 1890 to 1990

Archive image of mdeium Robert James Lees

Victorian medium unveiled
A plaque is unveiled at the birthplace of the celebrated medium and journalist Robert James Lees whose family claimed he tracked down Jack the Ripper

Image of Lalita's Big Fat Indian Wedding by Stephen Butt Lalita's Big Fat Asian Wedding
Photographs from the marketing plan for Lalita's Big Fat Asian Wedding which came to the stage of Curve, Leicester in September 2010
Newspaper poster of Magician Georgiana Eagle

Research on line
Links to some past and present unique historical research projects including discovering Georgiana Eagle, the child who performed magic for Queen Victoria

Stephen Butt

Behind the scenes
More about Stephen Butt, the owner of this website

The Leicestershire Magazine
Details of my local history articles for the Leicestershire Magazine, published bi-monthly, and available from most newsagents in Leicestershire and Rutland

My Books
A one-page guide to my published books, and those to be published in the next few months

Paranormal Leicester
The history of hauntings in Leicester published by Amberlay Publishing in September 2011

St Martins House
The story of the remarkable project to refurbish and revitalise the former Wyggeston Hospital Boys School in Leicester as a Diocesan Resource Centre for the 21st century

Landscape Images
Some examples of my landscape photography in England, Scotland and the USA

Links
Numerous links to relevant history and heritage websites


My websites - history, heritage, horticulture and more!
  Link to site map   Picture of old market garden   Link to Leicester Chronicler   Link to Woodforde Family History   Link to Robert James Lees website   Link to Lindas Dolls House  
Site map WithybrookAcre Chronicler Woodforde Mystic Lees  Dollshouse