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Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 25, 2019
The Secret Mystery of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ Working in the archives, I often roll my eyes at newspaper headlines which report on archive material being ‘newly discovered’, suddenly ‘unearthed’, and ‘never before seen’ – as quite often the document has been sitting in the archive store for years, has a catalogue […]
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Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on April 5, 2019
As part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project we have been training volunteers in how to archive and use sound recordings. One of the projects we are working on is creating sound clips that can be used in reminiscence work, and one of the topics we are looking at is holidays. The […]
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Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 4, 2019
On Friday 4 April 1919 Mr Thomas Fielding Johnson purchased the 36-acre site of Leicester’s 5th Northern Base Hospital, where nearly 75,000 injured First World War soldiers had been nursed, as a gift to house the proposed new Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland College. When Dr Astley Clarke, a prime mover in the cause of establishing […]
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Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on March 8, 2019
It now seems like a long time ago that we became aware of the British Library’s ambitious plans for a national project that will preserve nearly half a million ‘at risk’ audio recordings. Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) is the audio preservation and access strand of a larger project called Save Our Sounds, which is […]
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Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on January 24, 2019
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 […]
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Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on January 3, 2019
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 […]
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Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on November 29, 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 […]
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Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on November 23, 2018
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 […]
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Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on September 5, 2018
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 […]
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Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2018
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, […]
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