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Leicester

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Leicester , city (1991 pop. 324,394) and district, Leicestershire, central England. The city is connected by canals with the Trent River and London, and it is also a railway center. Leicester was of industrial importance as early as the 14th cent.; the making of hosiery, knitwear, and shoes are long-established industries. Other manufactures are chemicals, aniline dyes, textiles, textile and woodworking machinery, and light-metal products. The University College, now the Univ. of Leicester, was founded in 1918 and chartered as a university in 1957. DeMontfort Univ. was established in 1992. Immigration... Read more
Leicester
Leicester (Roman) was the Romano-British civitas -capital of Ratae...north of the baths was a macellum or covered market. Leicester does not appear to have had the later 2nd-cent. earthwork...Simon Esmonde Cleary post-Roman Next a Mercian town, Leicester became one of the Danish five boroughs until ... Read more
Leicester, Robert Dudley, 1st earl of
Leicester, Robert Dudley, 1st earl of ( c. 1532–88). Son...general of the English forces in the Netherlands in 1585. Leicester was a controversial figure. He was involved in his father...certainly produced in 1566–7 a rather damning list of Leicester's qualities (or lack of them), questioning ... Read more

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