MA Museum Studies Placement Week 7-8
My time now at the University of Leicester Archives and Special Collections has ended, and I am proud of what I have achieved. Through a lot of hard work, I was able to catalogue the Rose Griffiths Collection in its entirety. All 371 items have been looked at, cataloged, and repackaged. I was also able […]
MA Museum Studies Placement Week 5-6
I have now completed another two weeks of the placement it is crazy to think how quickly this has gone. During week 5 I was slowly getting through more cataloguing and re-boxing and fixing small mistakes I had made within the catalogue. The art of writing proper descriptions is a bit tricky to pick up. […]
MA Museum Studies Placement Weeks 3-4
Cataloguing the Rose Griffiths Archive During week 3 I began to get deeper into the cataloguing process, and I also began to re-box all the material. The cataloguing process can be at times a bit tedious and sifting through documents which you missed during the box listing phase can be a bit daunting. Especially, when […]
MA Museum Studies Placement, Weeks 1-2
by Christian Newth Hello, my name is Christian Newth and I am a student doing my placement for the Museum Studies course here at the Archives and Special Collections in the David Wilson Library. My task that I have been given is to catalogue and repackage the Rose Griffiths collection. Rose Griffiths wrote many different […]
The Works of John Gould
Guest post by Ian Swirles, Special Collections Assistant. My name is Ian and I am the Special Collections Assistant at the University of Leicester Library. I support the Archives & Special Collections team by getting books and archive material ready for visitors and groups to view in the Special Collections Reading Room. My role involves […]
Blog 3: Items of Interest chosen by Jenni Hunt.
Over the past few months I have been working on listing the University of Leicester’s Administrative Archive. This work, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is part of the “So That They May Have Life” project, carried out in order to celebrate the centenary of the University of Leicester. My work involves exploring those […]
Blog 2: Impact of the Second World War on University College Leicester. Guest post by Jenni Hunt.
Introduction I am currently working on listing the University of Leicester’s administrative archive, as part of the National Lottery Heritage Fund supported “So That They May Have Life” project, celebrating the University’s Centenary. The papers that I have been looking at cover the first thirty or so years of the University’s life, covering the founding, […]
Blog 1: Advertising files: Guest post by Jenni Hunt
The University Archives The University Archives at the University of Leicester are, perhaps unsurprisingly, boxes and boxes of files relating to the history of the University of Leicester. Part are stored in the basement of the David Wilson building, in temperature and humidity-controlled secure storage, alongside collections of rare books and photographs, and contain papers from the founding […]
Writing yourself into the archives
Seeing other institutions’ reactions to the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged the Archives & Special Collections team to think about what we can do to collect Leicester’s responses to it, both official and personal. While I (Vicky) have been busy experimenting with WebRecorder to collect the University’s Covid-19 response pages, and saving emails detailing […]
Looking at War Memorials
In October-November 2019, Archives & Special Collections featured an exhibition in the cases outside our reading room, entitled Looking at War Memorials. This was curated by me in my capacity as a PhD student in the School of History, Politics and International Relations using objects, photographs and documents from my own collection as well […]
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