Hidden Histories – An UnCivil War.

An exploration of the first English Civil War through its impacts on the people of Leicester and Leicestershire. In this first part of the episode, Jim Butler examines the causes of the war and how the rivalry between the Royalist Lord Loughborough, Henry Hastings and the Parliamentarian Lord Thomas Grey of Groby was to culminate in the devastating 1645 siege of Leicester.

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