![Belmont House Society, Meeting at New Parks, 1888 [Isabel C. Ellis, Records of Nineteenth Century Leicester (n.p., 1935), pl. opp. p. 280].](https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/files/2017/09/BelmontHouseSociety-150x150.jpg)
This post draws on early research carried out as part of a research commission from A Century of Stories, a Heritage Lottery Funded project exploring the individual and shared legacy of the First World War in Leicestershire, run by Leicestershire County Council. The research, which will be completed during the next year, explores the role of […]
Guest post from Charlotte Dayton, MA Museum Studies student working with the Special Collections team for her work placement. Hello, I’m Charlotte and I having been doing a placement with Special Collections in the Library as part of my MA in Museum Studies. The aim of my placement has been to create a learning resource […]
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 […]
Two hundred years ago, on 1 August 1817, the adventurer-Egyptologist Giovanni Belzoni, described by Howard Carter, with good reason, as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology’1 was the first to set foot inside the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, which had been sealed for centuries beneath the sands of […]
With the end of the academic year comes the time where everyone packs their bags and treats themselves to a holiday. But the types of holidays people are choosing to go on has changed significantly over time. The East Midland Oral History Archive holds over 400 interviews that were conducted during the 1980s with residents […]
The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol, was born in 1817 in London, the son of the assistant proprietor of the London Coffee House. He was sent to Charterhouse School from the […]
The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features. In common with many flowers, it has gone in and out of fashion over the centuries – but the tulip’s history has been more dramatic than […]
Over the last few centuries women’s place in the world has changed significantly, and with International Women’s Day today it is great to see how the position of women, especially in the world of work, has changed since the first International Women’s Day in 1908. The East Midland Oral History Archives hold over 400 […]
Prior to 1846, Leicester had its own very particular way of celebrating Shrove Tuesday, which precedes the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday and was therefore the occasion for an outburst of eating, drinking and riotous entertainments. A letter written by ‘J.C.B.’ to William Hone, author of the Year Book first published in 1829, explains […]
21st January 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Eric Henry Janson Teasdale, who at the age of just twenty gave his life during the First World War. Guest post by Sedtin Wan (Development and Alumni Relations Office). Eric Henry Janson Teasdale, Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion serving in the Machine […]
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