Vol 2 Published 2024 -  £17 (hardback)

Available from: Quinns bookshop Harborough, Kibworth Books Kibworth, Waterstones Harborough, Historical Society meetings and Harborough Library

Chapter 1   The Development of Market Harborough since 1800
Chapter 2   Town Centre Change and the Growth of Retail
Chapter 3   Local Administration: from Vestry to District Council
Chapter 4   From Early Origins to the National Health Service
Chapter 5   Formation of Public Services: Water, Gas, Electricity
Chapter 6   Education and the Role of Government 
Chapter 7   Changes in Religious Belief and Practice
Chapter 8   The Transport Revolution: Canals, Railways, Motor Transport
Chapter 9   Rising Standards of living, Leisure, and Recreation 
Chapter 10 Town Life in Wartime 
Chapter 11 Changes in Farming Practice
Chapter 12 Industrial Harborough
Chapter 13 Parliamentary Politics in the Harborough Area 
Chapter 14 Some Notable People associated with Harborough

Vol 1 published 2022, reprinted 2024
£15 (hardback)



Everything about this book is wonderful .... I shall gently read it all through the summer: each page shows immense care and research, I so love that.”

Carmen Callil