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Rewriting evolution: Charnwood and Charnia
One of the world’s oldest fossils was discovered in Charnwood Forest.
‘Nurdling’ at The White Horse
The centuries old-pub game created by bored children.
Launde Abbey (Part Two): The Cromwell Connection
"Myself for Launde” wrote Thomas Cromwell. The abbey chapel shares its secrets.
Launde Abbey (Part One) : History in the making
Launde Abbey has been a place of worship since the 1100s with a story to tell.
Leicester Castle Gallows
What lies beneath. The buried truth at Leicester castle.
The Worthington Lock-Up
A sobering overnight stay for drunks and miscreants awaiting court
The Bouskell Park Ice House
Before the fridge… was the ‘Ice House’
The 18th U.S. President pays Leicester a visit
Ulysses S. Grant stops off in Leicester on the 31st of May 1877.
Leicester Town Hall: 150 years of stories
The well-known and lesser-known sides of Leicester’s civic history
How Halfords started in Leicester’s Halford Street
Retailers Halfords and Currys opened their first shops in Edwardian Leicester.
