11
Sep

VISITING LEICESTER?

   Posted by: Dorothea Preis   in Bookworm, News

A new guidebook is due to be launched today:  Richard III: The Leicester Connection by David Baldwin.  It should be a great help to anyone planning to visit Leicester.  According to the announcement it will bring “to life the city’s medieval past, King Richard III’s links to the city and the extraordinary story of how he came to be buried in the city following his death at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.”

Appropriately the launch will take place at Leicester’s Travelodge, which is on the site of the Blue Boar Inn, where Richard stayed before heading to meet Henry Tudor’s army at Bosworth.  An information panel will tell the Blue Boar Inn.  The author, David Baldwin, will obviously be present, but the instigator of the Greyfriars Project, Philippa Langley is also expected.  The Mayor of Leicester, Peter Soulsby, will unveil a plaque at the Travelodge marking the site of the Blue Boar Inn.

If you are planning to visit the city, one of your first stops should be either at The Guildhall, New Walk Museum, Visit Leicester, Leicester Cathedral or the University of Leicester bookshop, where you can buy the book for £3.99.

For more information click here and here.

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