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Special Collections in the News
While we may be tucked away in the basement of the David Wilson Library there are plenty of exciting discoveries to be made in Special Collections, as recent media interest in our collections demonstrates. We had a busy week last week launching our new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Leicester author Sue Townsend. […]
The many languages of Sue Townsend
The Special Collections team has been joined for the last couple of weeks by Claire Preval, an undergraduate intern from the Department of the History of Art and Film. Claire spent her first few days doing a great job of sorting our extensive collection of foreign language editions of works by Sue Townsend and has […]
Mr Bevan’s Dream
The funeral of Sue Townsend began today with a public celebration of her life at De Montfort Hall. The service opened with a moving eulogy delivered by the humanist celebrant, Nicci Gerrard, and included tributes from school friends, the city mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, Sue’s literary agent, and Chris Stafford from Curve, representing Leicester’s Theatres. […]
Sue Townsend (1946-2014)
It was with great sadness that we learned last week of the death of one of our depositors, Sue Townsend, the creator of the Adrian Mole diaries and one of the most popular British novelists of the late twentieth century. Her work was read not just in the UK but across the world. When I […]
Incunabula in Special Collections
For a University the size and age of Leicester the Library has a surprising rich collection of incunabula (books printed before 1501). The invention of the printing press during the 15th century saw the beginning of mass production and mass circulation of texts and images across Europe. Our earliest printed work dates from the very […]
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