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Reprint: local history publishers in Loughborough, Leicestershire and the Midlands

Reprint publish original local history books for Loughborough, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, with a catalogue of over 300 titles. We also reprint out-of-print and hard-to-find volumes of local interest, as well as postcards and calendars. Want to write a book of local interest? We can publish it for you.

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Leicester Old and New (1975)

William Kidd

In relating the past to the present, the old to the new, in terms of pictures, full account must be taken of the fact that the city of Leicester has a very old foundation; how old, historians of different ages cannot agree. Medieval historians attributed it to King Lear (844 B.C.) enshrined in immortality by Shakespeare. Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th century historian wrote of King Lear (or Leir, as he spelt it): "He built upon the River Sore, a city called in the British tongue Karleir, in the … [more about this new title]

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