A short history of the four Regiments and their antecedents which made up The Queen’s Lancashire Regiment 

Price: £7

Red Roses on the Veldt tells the remarkable story of three regiments of Lancashire infantry in the Boer War  1899-1902. The East Lancashire, South Lancashire, and Loyal North Lancashire Regiments consistently took every objective they attacked and proved themselves a match for the Boers in marksmanship and mobile warfare. John Downham, who as a young officer first visited the Boer War battlefields in 1965, has drawn on the extensive archives of The Lancashire Infantry Museum, including many previously unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs and photographs, to create a vivid picture of soldiering in South Africa.

Price: £17.50

A tribute to 80 men of Preston, Lancashire, who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War I.

A marble tablet on the wall of the former St Mary’s Church, now part of the Museum of Lancashire complex in Preston, listed 80 men who died in World War I about whom absolutely nothing was known – not even ranks, regiments, or dates of death.  As part of the “Preston Remembers” project to mark the centenary of the Great War, a team of 17 local volunteers was recruited and trained to uncover their stories. Against expectations, every man was eventually traced. In telling their stories, this book follows the full course of the war from 1914 to the Armistice, including all the major battles. It also illustrates how ordinary men from small and ordinary communities in ordinary towns across the country played their part, at cost of their lives, on the world stage.

Price: £7