From the multicultural bustle of Leicester to the smaller market towns of Market Harborough and Lutterworth and evens smaller picturesque villages, Leicestershire is a unique and varied county with a rich cultural heritage.

For those who wish to explore the Cotswold plateau behind the route there will be recommended archaeological walks, and for each type of walker the 'archaeological' panoramas in front of the Cotswold Escarpment are identified and explained.

These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by Leicestershire Guild of Storytelling. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these thirty stories from Leicestershire and Rutland reflect the wisdom (and eccentricities) of the counties and its people.

True-life stories of seafarers facing danger and death in the 19th and early 20th centuries

This 'Little Book' gives you all the low-down on the daily life of the ordinary people as well as vivid descriptions of the luxury in royal palaces

An intimate portrait of Tudor England captured, revealed and explored in 100 defining objects

A hugely topical re-appraisal of Tudor England's place in Europe and Europeans' place in Tudor England