Hinckley - spa town of the Midlands

John Nichols - Hinckley's first historian

The man who tamed crime-torn Hinckley

The surgeon with an international reputation

How the town and villages got their names

The history of the museum cottages

The racehorse owning Mayor of Hinckley

A celebrated medical history

Hinckley in the Hungry Forties

Hinckley - From Saxon Origins to the 21th Century

The Bleeding Tombstone

Croft Hill - grisly rituals

Sir Wolstan Dixie - a notorious baronet

Battle Of Bosworth, War of the Roses

George Frederick Handel, composer of The Messiah

Hosiery Industry

Tinhat legend

Nat Langham - bare knuckle fighter

Dick Turpin - one of England's most notorious highwaymen

Byron - poet, dangerous to know

John Cleveland - England's most popular poet

George Fox - The founder of the Quaker movement

Joseph Hansom - architect best knowm for the cab

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