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Welcome New Students!

Welcome New Students!

Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on September 26, 2016

  A warm welcome from Special Collections to new students starting this autumn! Here are my top tips to ease you into university life (with a little help from the University Archives).       1. Don’t lose your student ID! One of the first things issued to you as a new student, use this to […]

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University of Leicester Special Collections. Front cover of the pamphlet, A True and Faithful Account of the Several Informations Exhibited to the Honourable Committee Appointed by the Parliament to Inquire into the Late Dreadful Burning of the City of London, (London, 1667), SCM 05525.

The Dreadful Burning of the City of London

Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016

The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events abounded, the city had been ravaged by Plague the year before and England was at war with the Dutch, with whom the French […]

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University of Leicester Special Collections. A view of Old St Paul’s, before the fire of 1561 from: SCT 00908, William Dugdale, The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London : From its Foundation Untill these Times …, (London, 1818).

The destruction of Old St Paul’s

Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016

350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with terrifying speed through the city’s crooked, narrow streets, lined with wooden buildings. One consequence of the Fire, irreparable damage to […]

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