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Fox Hunting Collection

Leicestershire is generally considered to be the birth place of "Fox hunting on a modern system", and Hugo Meynell (1753-1800) who lived at Quorn, near Loughborough "The father of fox hunting". By the mid 1800s the fashionable "Shire" packs of fox hounds including the Quorn, Cottesmore, Pytchley and Belvoir were firmly established, and influenced other hunts. Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough became fashionable centres for English fox hunting, all of which are represented in the collections through a variety of material.

Leicestershire's fox hunting collections include a variety of material directly and indirectly associated with fox hunting and opposition from 1750 to the present day. The collections also include items associated with campaigning organisations reflecting different points of view from local, regional and national perspectives. It includes books, fine art, photographs, oral histories as well as ephemera from recent campaigns.

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