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The Guildhall library in England, which includes the New Testament in Greek from the 15th century, was established in 1632, when the town library was moved into the east wing of the building. [8] Leicester's first police force had its station in the Guildhall from 1836. [8] The Corporation moved to the new Leicester Town Hall in 1876. Apart ...
Southfields Library The Southfields of Leicester , England consisted of common land south of the city, and now refers to the mostly-developed area immediately south of the city centre . It is one of three such large fields that survive as placenames, the others being the Highfields and the Northfields .
English: Southfields Branch Library, Saffron Lane, Leicester, seen from the southwest. Designed by the same architects as the St Barnabas Branch Library. Southfield Library is nicknamed the Pork Pie Library. Part of the building was originally a child welfare clinic.
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) (formerly CURL) [1] comprises 35 university libraries, 3 national libraries, and the Wellcome Collection in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [2] Its aim is to increase the ability of research libraries to share resources among themselves.
Attenborough Arts Centre is an arts centre on Lancaster Road, Leicester, United Kingdom. [1] It is the University of Leicester arts centre but also serves Leicester as a whole. The centre's access and inclusive work has been recognised, through multiple awards and grants from Arts Council England , BBC Children in Need , LeicesterShire ...
The National Lottery Heritage Fund provided the UOSH project with a £9.5 million grant and other donors include the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, the Headley Trust, the British Library Trust and American Trust for the British Library, as well as other charities and individuals. The total project funding has now reached £18 ...
1377 – Leicester assessed as 17th richest borough in the Kingdom of England. [68] 1389 – Noted Leicester priest and Lollard William Swinderby was forced to recant his heresy publicly in all the city's major churches as well as those at Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray by the church court at Lincoln. Later burned at the stake in London ...