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MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 7-8
Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team. Yineng I have been doing the placement here for two months. My project is about the University Library’s history. During this period, I identified key individuals and significant events in the […]
MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 5-6
Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team. Yineng Hello, I’m Yineng Zhu. Over the last two weeks, I have continued to modify the Library’s history timeline and added more photographs and content, including: Professor Jack Simmons, Librarian Brian Burch, […]
MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 3-4
Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team. Yineng Hello, I’m Yineng Zhu. Over the last two weeks, I edited the Library history timeline to make it more specific and convincing. I also scanned some photographs and documents for the timeline […]
MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 1-2
Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team. Yineng Hello, I’m Yineng Zhu and I have been doing a placement with Special Collections in the Library as part of my MA in Museum Studies. My project is about the University Library’s history. […]
Graduate Placement
By Megan Jeans, Accelerate Your Career graduate programme. As a recent graduate of Contemporary History from the University of Leicester, I have had to consider what to do with my degree – a somewhat arduous task that befalls many a graduate. After, debating my career path, I set my sights on what I enjoyed […]
Joe Orton: Behind the playwright
The 9th August 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester born playwright Joe Orton The past few years have seen heightened interest in Joe Orton’s literary career and personal life, explored through an array of mediums varying from: lectures and talks, art exhibitions, revised stage productions, and televised documentaries. For previous Orton related […]
Welcome New Students!
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 […]
Beatrix Potter – 150th Anniversary
Iconic fictional characters of childhood can be attributed to the creativity of Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator of the late 19th – early 20th century. Adult and child alike will be familiar with the mischievous protagonist that is Peter Rabbit; a story which after several rejections was published by Beatrix herself, printing […]
Summer On Campus
With exam season drawing to a close (my sympathies to those continuing their studies through the summer), now is an opportune moment to relax and soak up some rays around the University campus. Victoria Park will undoubtedly be filled with picnickers, sunbathers and various sporting enthusiasts. Making the […]
May Day: Early 19th Century Traditions
Laying May branches Whilst many associate traditional celebrations of May Day with maypoles and Morris dancers, one early nineteenth century custom featured ‘Mayers’ (those included in May Day celebrations) arising at dawn to place branches of May outside neighbouring dwellings. Performed as a symbolic gesture, the larger the branch placed at the door, the greater […]
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