Classics from my Childhood, a Literary Leicester Event
Guest post written by Alyssa Walker (BA Ancient History and History), as part of a student placement hosted by Archives & Special Collections for the 2nd year History module, ‘Working with History: The Heritage Field Project’. The Event, 21st March 2026 A recounting of my placement experience in the University of Leicester’s […]
Research Skills Training | Summer Term 2026
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ukrainian History Unearthed in East Midlands Oral History Archive’s Polish Collection
By Iona Kerstin Volynets September 05, 2025 Content warning: This article includes mentions of massacres, war, labour camps, death, and illness. Where are you from? While for some of us, the answer is simple, for others, responding is more complicated. For two of the narrators in the Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester & Rutland’s Polish […]
Reflections on my Professional Fellowship: Part Two
In February 2024, I was awarded a Professional Fellowship from The National Archives andResearch Libraries UK Professional Fellowship Scheme, 2024-2025. The Fellowship aims to foster collaboration, strengthen relationships, and address collective challenges faced by research and cultural organisations. During my Professional Fellowship, I focused on the critical question: ‘How can archive services […]
Student placement in Special Collections, Week 3-4
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 . Yongqin Huang Hello, I’m Yongqin Huang. Weeks three and four of placement were a bit hectic for us, but thankfully, we […]