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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Leicester, the county town of Leicestershire, in England. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Leicester City Local Education Authority initially had a troubled history when formed in 1997 as part of the local government reorganisation – a 1999 Ofsted inspection found "few strengths and many weaknesses", although there has been considerable improvement since then.
Leicester (UK Parliament constituency) Leicester Abbey; Leicester balloon riot; Leicester boy; Leicester Castle; History of Leicester City F.C. Leicester Guildhall; Leicester Museum & Art Gallery; Leicester Town Hall; Leicester West in the 1923 general election; Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke; Church of St Mary de Castro ...
Dinosaurs, geology, art, Ancient Egypt, natural history, world art Newarke Houses Museum: Leicester: Multiple: Local history, room settings from the 17th century and the 1950s and 70s, toys, history of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, period street scene Old Rectory Museum: Loughborough: Local
In 1974, the Local Government Act 1972 abolished the county borough status of Leicester and the county status of neighbouring Rutland, converting both to administrative districts of Leicestershire. These actions were reversed on 1 April 1997, when Rutland and the City of Leicester became unitary authorities.
The first academic post related to local history was at Reading University which appointed a research fellow in local history in 1908. There was a department of local history (but without a professor) at Leicester University from 1947. H. P. R. Finberg was the first Professor of English Local History. He was appointed by Leicester in 1964. [6]
Leicestershire (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / ⓘ LEST-ər-sheer, -shər) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warwickshire to the south-west, and Staffordshire to the west.
This was followed in 1791 by The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Town of Leicester (Leicester, 4to). He also republished Robert Thoroton's Nottinghamshire, with large additions (3 vols. 4to, 1790, new edit. 1797). Portrait of John Throsby at age 50, published 1790. John Nichols incorporated most of Throsby's work in his History of ...