Raiders of the Lost Archives

Welcome to our hall of fame. This is a selection of some of our prize possessions – documents, photographs, books, pamphlets and maps (they will all find a place eventually). Here you will be able to see old favourites of ours as well as exciting new acquisitions. New items will be added regularly and past glories will still shine in an ‘album’ of treasures from the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. Follow the link by ‘clicking’ on Other Office Treasures to see what you may have missed!

A wintry view of Appleby Magna (c.1790) by John Glover, Writing Master of the local Grammar School.  Preserved in the Record Office's grangerized edition of Nichols' History & Antiquities of the County of Leicester (Vol.IV/ii p.431).