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The book Travels Through History: Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Loughborough is available at a discount price between 29th July and 5th August 2026. Standing on the platform of Quorn and Woodhouse station in rural Leicestershire on a frosty winter’s morning, the first sound I heard was the long, high squeal of a whistle. I was about to climb onboard a carriage being pulled by BR steam…

The book Travels Through History: Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Loughborough is available at a discount price between 29th July and 5th August 2026. Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for “the Great Charter of the Liberties”), commonly called Magna Carta is a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. He hated it with a passion; it…

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The book Travels Through History: Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Loughborough is available at a discount price between 29th July and 5th August 2026. Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield, the son of a bookseller. There is a Samuel Johnson museum in the town, which is worth visiting if you are at all interested in the English Language.  Johnson attended Pembroke College, Oxford, but…

The book Travels Through History: Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Loughborough is available at a discount price between 29th July and 5th August 2026. The forces of the future Henry VII defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field on 22nd August 1485, ending the Wars of the Roses in favour of the House of Lancaster. The exact place where the battle occurred was in dispute for…

CHRISTMAS MARKET 2026 AT LEICESTER CATHEDRAL

Friday 4th December 2026 5 - 8pm

Saturday 5th December 2026 10.30am - 3pm