Sue Townsend’s Fan Mail
Guest Post from Helen Ward, Library Assistant in Archives and Special Collections. To aid researchers, I have been adding details to our catalogue describing the content of individual letters from the correspondence series (reference: ST/16/5) within the Sue Townsend Collection. I have found many of these letters to be charming and worthy of being […]
Unveiling Women’s History at the University of Leicester
About the University of Leicester Established in 1921 as a memorial to those who served in the First World War, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland College had humble origins. Higher education was provided for 15 students during the first year, in one building, and with a small number of subjects offered. In our first decade, women made […]
Happy World Digital Preservation Day 2018!
I seem to be blogging on a theme of particular days here so far – but in case you hadn’t already guessed from the title, today is World Digital Preservation Day! I thought it would be a good excuse to talk a little […]
Discovering Peterloo in Special Collections
Guest post from Dr William Farrell, Research Services Consultant. Mike Lee’s new film Peterloo has opened to good reviews this month: the screening I saw was a full house. The film tells the story of the Peterloo Massacre, a notorious event in the history of political reform in Britain. On 16 August 1819 a peaceful demonstration was held in St Peter’s Field in Manchester. Some […]
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. […]
Happy International Archives Day 2018!
The University records manager, David Jenkins, and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) thought we’d take the opportunity to flag up IAD18 and explain a bit about what we do all day! On the 9th of June 1948, the International Council on Archives was created under the auspices of the UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific […]
The beast in me, guest post by Armand De Filippo (Museum Studies)
MS210 is a manuscript held in the Special Collections of the David Wilson Library, University of Leicester. This manuscript is the focus object of a PhD research study being undertaken by Armand De Filippo at the School of Museum Studies and funded by a CSSAH scholarship. Manuscripts are an enduringly popular feature of exhibitions, […]
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