Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City by Butt, Stephen

Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781445640457)

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Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City by Butt, Stephen

Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City

$24.95
Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City by Butt, Stephen

Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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At the beginning of the 1950s, Leicester was an industrial city picking itself up from the debris of the Second World War. Compared with nearby Coventry, Leicester has been a relatively safe place, but the effects of the Blitz were still very evident in New Walk and in the residential areas of Highfields and Stoneygate. After years of operating on a wartime economy, Leicester's major industries - textiles, hosiery and machine tools - faced the challenge of returning to domestic production, and in assimilating a large male workforce returning from the battlefields of Europe and beyond to civilian life. In Leicester in the 1950s, Stephen Butt traces the vibrant lives of those recovering from the destruction of the Second World War.

Author: Stephen Butt
ISBN-10: 1445640457
ISBN-13: 9781445640457
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2014
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 0.30d
By Stephen Butt
By Stephen Butt
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Stephen Butt is a well known local historian, who presents a weekly local history program on BBC Radio Leicester. He works in the broadcasting industry as a Senior Broadcast Journalist and holds degrees in Psychology and English Local History. Stephen is also an honorary press officer for the Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust, and the editor of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society newsletter. He has written many local interest titles for Amberley. He lives in Leicester.

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