by Sarsen Press admin | Jul 28, 2021 | Books, History
This is the story of the first legal challenge after the passing of the 1872 Ballot Act which significantly widened the franchise and brought in the secret ballot. The result of the election saw the Conservative candidate elected with a majority of 11, but the result... by Sarsen Press admin | Feb 5, 2021 | Books, History
The station was on the Great Central Railway, just to the north of Leicester. Opened in the 1890s and closed in 1963 this book is a wonderful collection of memories and photographs of a fairly insignificant station which nonetheless is part of our transport heritage... by Sarsen Press admin | Jul 9, 2020 | History
The Original Heidelburg letterpress machine that we ran in the 1980’s was a Platten which used raised metal lettering to make the print from. The pages would be laid out by hand from thousands of tiny metal lettering pieces. We used this system alongside our... by Sarsen Press admin | Oct 10, 2019 | History
It was only in the late 1960s that the Liberal Party started to campaign across the country using the colour orange. Prior to that the colour used locally tended to depend on the political history of the area and could be green, blue, red, yellow or orange. Dayglo...