The Summer term begins, and so too does our research skills training program. We will be offering workshops on areas including literature searching, referencing software and managing research data. Intended for research students and staff conducting, or supporting, research most of the sessions will be run online. The full program is below. If you have […]
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South Asian Studies: Leicester and Immigration
BBC Radio Leicester programmes. As well as holding many thousands of oral histories, the East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) also holds, in partnership with the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland, the archive of BBC Radio Leicester. This includes the Maurice Ennals collection of scrapbooks and ephemera, a photo collection, and, of course, […]
Stories about…Music
The East Midlands Oral History Archive contains many thousands of recordings, almost all of which take the form of a story, whether as an oral history interview, a radio programme, a speech, or a song (our wildlife collection may be the only exception). As part of Storytelling week, 2026, this blog takes music as its […]
Research Skills Training | Spring Term 2026
Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program. We will be offering workshops on areas including literature searching, referencing software, understanding metrics and managing research data. Intended for research students and staff conducting, or supporting, research most of the sessions will be run online. The full program is below. If you […]
Lest We Forget: Remembering George Eades
1 On 11th November 2025 Archives and Special Collections hosted a visit from Steve and Sheron Wilkinson. Steve and Sheron travelled down from Cheshire in order to attend the Remembrance Day service at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth College (WQE) and lay a wreath at the school’s war memorial. They then crossed over to the University […]
Discover Library Resources in November
Find out more about our resources and collections this Autumn. We have a fantastic line-up of publishers for you as part of our Resources Showcase on Wednesday 12th November. This is a drop-in event to learn more about the variety of resources and collections we subscribe to. Event Details Wednesday 12 November, 11:00 – 13:00.David […]
World Digital Preservation Day 2025: Why Preserve?
To celebrate World Digital Preservation Day 2025, we are posting about the recent project to identify, take in and preserve material relating to the discovery and identification of Richard III. This work was completed by Assistant Digital Archivist Ruth Maguire. In August 2012, University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), in collaboration with the Richard III […]
Research Skills Training for Autumn 2025
Another term begins, and so too does our research skills training program. We will be offering workshops on areas including literature searching, referencing software, open access, understanding metrics and managing research data. Intended for research students and staff conducting, or supporting, research most of the sessions will be run online. The full program is below. […]
Student placement in Special Collections, Week 5-6
Guest post written by Yi-Chen Su and Yongqin Huang, who are completing an eight week placement in Archives & Special Collections as part of their MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies . Yi-Chen Su During week 5 and week 6, we mainly wrote the interpretations for our exhibition. The process of writing the interpretations […]
The Alice Hawkins Collection
By Iona Kerstin Volynets 6 September 2025 From July 2009 to June 2010, a team of devoted volunteers at the LeicestHERday Trust gathered 150 interviews of prominent women from Leicestershire. These women ranged from being born in the 1920s to the 1980s and hailed from places as close as Hinckley and as far as Australia […]