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Victoria County History: Leicestershire on the website of British History Online (University of London & History of Parliament Trust): Volume 2, 1954 by W. G. Hoskins (editor) assisted by R. A. McKinley. "A part-volume, detailing the history of the religious houses of the county."
King Richard III Visitor Centre is a museum in Leicester, England that showcases the life of King Richard III and the story of the discovery, exhumation, and reburial of his remains in 2012–2015. For a long time, the burial place of Richard III was uncertain, although the site of his burial was assumed to be in a Leicester car park.
Leicestershire has a long history of livestock farming which continues today. Robert Bakewell (1725–1795) of Dishley, near Loughborough, was a revolutionary in the field of selective breeding. Bakewell's Leicester Longwool sheep was much prized by farmers across the British Empire and is today a heritage breed admired. [11]
In 1956 he published in the Transactions an account of seven of the key sites, Baggrave, Cold Newton, Great Stretton, Hamilton, Ingarsby, Lowesby and Quenby. [3] He wrote numerous other articles and contributed to the Victoria History of the County of Leicester [4] on the theme of deserted villages. He actively promoted research on them at the ...
N. Corah and Sons was a textile manufacturer of hosiery and clothing located in Leicester, England.At one time it was the largest knitted fabric producer in Europe, and its products had a major influence on the development and prosperity of the Marks & Spencer chain of retail stores.
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.
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This engraving was used as a frontispiece to Burton's Description of Leicester Shire (1622). Portrait attributed to William Segar , Society of Antiquaries of London William Burton (24 August 1575 – 6 April 1645) was an English antiquarian, best known as the author of the Description of Leicester Shire (1622), the county's first published ...