Author: John NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leicestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester
Author: John NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leicestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 2, East Anglia, Central England and Wales
Author: Anthony EmeryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521581318
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The second volume of a massive, illustrated survey of the greater houses of medieval England and Wales, first published in 1996.
The Birds of Leicestershire and Rutland
Author: Rob FrayPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0713672331
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
A new title in the successful County Avifaunas series, this is an in-depth study of the status and distribution of every birdspecies known to have occurred in the region, with a detailed review ofrarity records.
A Lost Frontier Revealed
Author: Alan FoxPublisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1907396365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A traveller through the length and breadth of England is soon aware of cultural differences, some of which are clearly visible in the landscape. The eminent English historian Charles Phythian-Adams has put forth that England, through much of the last millennium, could be divided into regional societies, which broadly coincided with groups of pre-1974 counties. These shire assemblages in turn lay largely within the major river drainage systems of the country. In this unusual study Alan Fox tests for, and establishes, the presence of an informal frontier between two of the proposed societies astride the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border, which lies on the watershed between the Trent and Witham drainage basins. The evidence presented suggests a strong case for a cultural frontier zone, which is announced by a largely empty landscape astride the border between the contrasting settlement patterns of these neighbouring counties.
The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons; ... a New Ed. by Alex. Chalmers
Author: Alexander ChalmersThe Story of England
Author: Michael WoodPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORY The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries - from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. He builds on this unique archive, enlisting the help of Kibworth's inhabitants in a village-wide archaeological dig and the first complete DNA profile of an English village. The story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a Who Do You Think You Are? for the entire nation. 'Better than any historian for decades, Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLS
A History of Leicestershire and Rutland
Author: Roy MillwardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Leicestershire and Rutland
Author: Nikolaus PevsnerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300096187
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Pevsner wrote that "Leicestershire is not a county of extremes" and agreed that "no other county in England surpasses Rutland for unspoiled quiet charm". The large and the small Midland counties possess a varied and rewarding range of buildings. Church architecture encompasses the classical Normanton, preserved in remote isolation from the flood of Rutland Water, to Market Harborough with its elegant medieval steeple, and a fine group of Victorian churches in Leicester. The major country houses include Belvoir Castle, Staunton Harold and Burley-on-the-Hill, while the more modest homes of the late nineteenth century include notable work by Ernest Gimson, Voysey and a garden city at Leicester by Parker & Unwin. Leicestershire also possesses fine modern buildings, from its architecturally progressive schools to the justly renowned buildings of Leicester University, dominated by Stirling & Gowan's Engineering Building.
The Tigers
Author: Matthew RichardsonPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473819709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
This is the first major history of the Leicestershire Regiment in the Great war to be published since the 1930s. Weaving personal recollections with official accounts, it brings the character of the four battalions raised in Leicestershire vividly to life. There are over 200 photographs, many from private collections, maps and several appendices.