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 […]
New ways of using the Historical Directories collection
Over the last 18 months, we have been collaborating with a research project called the Congruence Engine. One strand of the project has been experimenting with new ways of using our Historical Directories collection. Daniel Wilson from the project has written a blog post this week getting into the technical side of this. The workshop […]
Views of England and Wales: a new online collection
This week we are pleased to launch Views of England and Wales, the latest collection to be added to University of Leicester Special Collections Online. We have now published over 2,000 images of historic landscapes, buildings and monuments belonging to the Centre for Regional and Local History. The majority of images are prints made in the […]