Leicester through time
A new book in full colour on every page, published October 2009, tracing the changing face of Leicester from the 19th to the 21st Century

Rutland through Time
Currently in production. This book in the Amberley Press  `Through Time' series will feature archive images from the Jack Hart Collection in Rutland County Museum.  This will be the first time that this remarkable and rich collection has been made available to the general public and presented in the context of 21st Century Rutland

Leicester in old images
First published in 2005 and reprinted in March 2009.  Two hundred archive images of Leicester from 1890 to 1990

The big red books are back
The project to complete the Victorian County History volumes for Leicestershire has been re-launched. How can YOU help?

Who's Hugh?
The Hugh Aston Building is De Montfort University's new Business and Law facility.  Who was Hugh, and why is DMU excited about him?

The Beatles Abbey Road
The iconic album cover recreated in Leicester city centre on Saturday morning in 2007. Note the Volkswagen Beetle in exactly the right place!

Messiah 250 - Handel and Hanbury
Church Langton's links with Handel were renewed in September 2009, exactly 250 years after the first performance of Messiah in an English parish church

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

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

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Leicester Through Time was
published in October 2009

ON SALE NOW

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