March 23, 2015

Overly Devoted Archivist Uncategorized #Also: that statue of Richard III with the crown that's appearing in all the publicity material, #I'm almost positive that statue used to be in Castle Park #Which was next to my hall of residence #So I probably saw that statue every day, #Now it's in front of the cathedral housing the bones of the ACTUAL GUY #History is rad, history, leicester, me, richard iii 1 Comment

The local news is still (obviously) covering the Richard III celebrations/reinterment, and I’m still finding it so exciting. I’m probably going to go see the coffin when the crowds die down, and there’s gonna be a fireworks display at the end of the week so I might go to that too. It’s…aaah, it’s such a cool thing to happen! I mean-

-I literally walked past that car park loads of times? I probably walked past it during my very first week in Leicester, because the first nightclub I ever went to was near that street. Who’d have thought something as utterly cool as this would ever come from it?