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6. University of Leicester Special Collections. The Christmas revels at Crystal Palace in 1859 from: Illustrated London News, (London, 8 January 1859), OVERSIZE PER 050 I1195.

The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’

Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016

Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals – although in the 16th and 17th centuries the scene of your shame, rather than being the office party, might have been one of the many […]

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Students and staff, 1922. Back row: R. Bennett, W. Bates, M. Nevitt, M. Webb, G. K. Smalley. Middle row: E. Capey, Miss C. E. C. Measham, Dr. R. F. Rattray, W. G. Gibbs, N. Bonser. Front row: D. Ough, D Gilbert.

An interview with Nora Waddington

Posted by rwatson in Library Special Collections on December 19, 2016

During the 1980s an oral history project was undertaken by the Leicester Oral history Archive.  These interviews are now held by the East Midlands Oral History Archives at the University of Leicester. I am currently working on a project to increase the number of these interviews that are available online (check out the current collection […]

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