9 product(s) found for "Local History"
All four oral history booklets and CDs.
In the 1980s and early 1990s Mantle Arts made a series of recordings of local people talking about their memories of living in North West Leicestershire. The oldest people recorded were born in the nineteenth century, and their memories range through two world wars, working in the pits, stone masonry,...
'Childhood' booklet and CD
In the 1980s and early 1990s Mantle Arts made a series of recordings of local people talking about their memories of living in North West Leicestershire. The oldest people recorded were born in the nineteenth century, and their memories range through two world wars, working in the pits, quarrying, stone...
'Cinema' booklet and CD.
In the 1980s and early 1990s Mantle Arts made a series of recordings of local people talking about their memories of living in North West Leicestershire. The oldest people recorded were born in the nineteenth century, and their memories range through two world wars, working in the pits, quarrying, stone...
Lemons for Chamberlain: The Life and Backbench Career of Geoffrey Mander MP
In 1929 Geoffrey Mander (1882-1962) was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton East. He remained an MP until 1945, his career spanning the depression of the 1930s and the Second World War. He was involved in a wide range of political issues, gained a reputation for asking awkward...
Marking Time: Voices from Bardon
Bardon is a lost village of Leicestershire, demolished in 1989 to make way for a quarry and it's inhabitants rehoused. Marking Time is a record of Bardon Village by the people who lived there. Oral history, creative writing and visual art work undertaken with school children all combine to tell the story...
'War' booklet and CD
In the 1980s and early 1990s Mantle Arts made a series of recordings of local people talking about their memories of living in North West Leicestershire. The oldest people recorded were born in the nineteenth century, and their memories range through two world wars, working in the pits, stone masonry,...
Wordsworth in Leicestershire
Between 1806 and 1807, William Wordsworth lived and worked in Coleorton near Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire. Today Coleorton is an unremarkable village in the midst of an ex-coal mining area. A couple of centuries earlier, however, Coleorton was a major destination for 19th-century artists and writers...
'Work' booklet and CD
In the 1980s and early 1990s Mantle Arts made a series of recordings of local people talking about their memories of living in North West Leicestershire. The oldest people recorded were born in the nineteenth century, and their memories range through two world wars, working in the pits, stone masonry,...
ZZZZ Moira Furnace Pig on the Wall copies
20 copies of Pig on the Wall for Moira Furnace. Please note this is not available to any other customers.