Leicester

The history of Leicester

The city of Leicester serves as both market town and industrial centre for the county of Leicestershire. The city is well covered by general historical websites such as Leicester City Council's Growth & History and the Leicester Chronicler run by Stephen Butt. Historically the city has been associated with hosiery and knitwear, shoe manufacture and other light industrial manufacture. Sites which cover hosiery are Knitting Together and EMOHA's Leicestershire Hosiery, while Manufacturing Pasts has a wealth of material on companies such as Corah, Liberty, and many others.

Family historians should make sure that they are in contact with the Leicester Group of the Leicestershire and Rutland Family History Society.

Leicester City Council's 'The Story of Leicester' covers the city's history.

The University of Leicester's My Leicestershire website features oral history, radio, TV programmes, books, maps, photos etc.

For photographs of Leicester, try EMOHA's Leicester Sound & Vision, Paul Smith's photos of Leicester, or Ben Ravilious' Leicester photos. There are also a number of groups on Flickr and Facebook.

A History of the County of Leicester: volume 4 - The City of Leicester - the Victoria County History online. Wonderful!

Downloadable articles from the Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society provide a fascinating resource for city and county history.

Leicester's history in more detail Pre Twentieth Century Twentieth Century Transport History Areas of Leicester Oral History

Other useful Leicester sites Leicester Mercury The Space Centre Leicester City Museums Radio Leicester Leicester City Council Leicester Forum - covers all things Leicester including history EMOHA diary - organisations who host talks about history

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