Books about Leicester
Reprint publish the following books about Leicester:
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'Tanky' Smith: Leicester's First Private Detective
Price: £4.50
Francis 'Tanky' Smith was Leicester's first private detective after being a member of the Borough Police Force between 1840 and 1864. He achieved much success clearing up street crime in Victorian … [more]
1936 Leicester - Detailed account of that year
Price: £3.50
An in-depth detailed account of Leicester in 1936, with photographs.
A Brief History of the Great Central Railway and Victorian Season Tickets
Price: £2.00
This publication is small but holds many historical points of the GCR.
An ideal gift or souvenir from this fantastic steam railway.
Includes some 1899 season tickets in their ornate Victorian … [more]
A Chronology of Leicester 844 BC to 1926 AD
Price: £6.00
As the title suggests this publication is a chronological list of events and facts about Leicester.
A few excerpts...
1803 - August 29, John Clarke executed on the Ashby Road, for rape.
1807 … [more]
A Walk From Leicester to the East Coast (1915)
Price: £6.00
In frank and sometimes flowery language the author describes a walk from Belgrave in Leicester to the East Coast, undertaken for the sake of his health. His many adventures and observations are … [more]
Among The Broad-Arrow Men of Leicester Gaol - A Plain Account of English Prison Life (1924)
Price: £6.00
First published anonymously in 1924 by R. A. Castle, under his prison identity of Convict B-2-15. B stood for the tier he was on, 2 denoted the kind of work he was assigned and 15 was the cell. The … [more]
Bradgate House and the Grays of Groby
Price: £6.00
Contents
I-The Woodvilles.
II-Bradgate House.
III-The First Marquess of Dorset.
IV-The Second Marquess.
V-The Third Marquess and The Lord Thomas Seymour.
VI-Lady Jane Grey.
VII-The Marquess … [more]
Price: £6.00
A collection of historical essays by different contributors, first compiled and published in 1892 and edited by William Andrews FRHS. There are more than 20 chapters, with varied titles:
Historic … [more]
City of Gods: Historical Poetic Ramble Through Leicester
Price: £4.50
History overlaps and falls in on itself as the reader is taken on an informal tour of the old City Wall that has now ceased to exist, apart from the occasional outcrop.
The psycho-geography of … [more]
Colonel Standfast: The Memoirs of W.A. Tilney, 1868-1947
Price: £10.00
A soldiers life in England, India, The Boer War and Ireland.