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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
176 kr
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Leicester’s history can be traced back to an Iron Age settlement by the River Soar and a subsequent Roman town where the Fosse Way crossed the river. Mediaeval Leicester flourished around its Norman castle, merchants and religious houses but was also subject to plagues and civil war. Industrialisation and coal mining brought wealth into Leicester in the nineteenth century but also prepared the ground for welfare movements and radical politics in the city. Today’s Leicester is a bustling city with a diverse economy – the largest in the East Midlands.Illustrated throughout, this accessible historical portrait of the transformation that Leicester has undergone through the ages will be of great interest to residents, visitors and all those with links to the area.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
153 kr
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Tourism was born in Market Harborough in 1841 when Thomas Cook, a local cabinetmaker, set off towards Leicester and had his dream of worldwide working-class travel. The town was born to serve travellers. Centuries before, the town had been built to provide a market place for trades-people near to the 'new' highway connecting Northampton and Leicester. Eight hundred years later, the market is still busy, though now indoors, and the original Square is still bustling with shoppers. As a boy on the playing fields of the local school, former England team captain Martin Johnson discovered his finesse in Rugby. In the nineteenth century, William Symington and his family put Market Harborough on the manufacturing map by creating pea flour and a range of tempting sauces. In the last century the town could claim to be a 'crisp capital' of England, being the home of Golden Wonder crisps.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
211 kr
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Many of the high street names that meet our twenty-first century needs began with men and women who had ideas, imagination and sheer determination in a different age. Whether you are nine or ninety, shopping is a universal part of modern-day life, and in British Retail and the Men Who Shaped It we look at the people behind the corporations that built the modern-day high street and changed the way we shopped.Meet Henry Curry, who began making bicycles to earn an income to support his family and went on to found Curry's PC World. James Wilkinson sold household goods in a quiet neighbourhood street in Leicester, and always offered a fair deal. He founded the Wilko's chain of retail stores. Thomas Cook was a Baptist preacher strongly opposed to alcohol. He organised the first-ever rail excursion to take workers away to an alcohol-free event in Loughborough, from which the worldwide Thomas Cook travel empire developed. George Davies was a buyer of stockings and tights for Littlewoods Stores who launched Next before creating his own company, George, currently retailing through ASDA.This book is a celebration of the people who, through self-belief and determination created the multi-million-pound retail businesses we use every day.