Our Crime and Conflict strand probed the dark side of Charnwood’s history: theft, corruption and violence. We explored how successive conflicts, local and national, have been played out in Charnwood, from disputes between villages over land in the medieval period, poaching, the fierce resistance which met attempts to ‘enclose’ the land in the 18th and 19th centuries and industrial unrest. We also researched the part that Charnwood’s communities played during global conflicts, from the signals unit at Beaumanor Hall (which gathered messages for Bletchley Park), to the tales of schoolboys who passed the endless days of war playing with live ammunition shells that lined the roads of Charnwood Forest in preparation for the D-Day landings.
Making History Together