10 historic gems around Leicestershire that modern visitors should see
From 3,000-year-old forts to Victorian landmarks around the county
The Old Grammar School, Market Harborough (Image: Becky Jones)
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice As the country opens up again and the summer approaches, it s a good time to think about days out around Leicestershire.
Long record of crafts documenting history in the making
While the knitted data-collecting creature may conjure mythical monsters, textile and knitting artists themselves have populated mythology and fiction.
The threads or yarns of the Greek Fates controlled human destiny; in Homer s Ulysses, Penelope prolongs her weaving to protect herself from forced marriage; and Arachne, a mortal master-weaver is turned into a spider for depicting a less-than-flattering history of the gods. In Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities, the unsuspected French revolutionary Madame Defarge covertly codes a hit list in her knitting.
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