![Leather-bound album of postcards, Scottish, c.1910s-1930s, curator's collection.](https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/files/2020/05/07-150x150.jpg)
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 […]
![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)
The Belmont House Society and the Founding of the University of Leicester
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 […]
![School photograph of Eric Henry Janson Teasdale (Courtesy The King's School, Canterbury)](https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/files/2017/01/Teasdale-EHJ-150x150.jpg)
Eric Henry Janson Teasdale (1896-1917)
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 […]
![ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Arthur Edward Davis](https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/files/2016/11/Arthur-Edward-Davies600x800-150x150.jpg)
Arthur Edward Davis (1882-1916)
“Mr Davis was educated at Mill Hill School, London. He became a cricketer of distinction and played for Leicestershire. In the great War he joined as a Private the 11th Royal Fusiliers and served in France, where he was killed in 1916”. [ULA HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book] As described in a previous post, the University […]
![ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Garth Smithies Taylor](https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/files/2016/10/G-S-TaylorWeb-150x150.jpg)
Garth Smithies Taylor (1896-1916)
15 October 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Garth Smithies Taylor, a name which many staff and students at the University will have unwittingly passed on numerous occasions when entering the Fielding Johnson Building. The following account of Taylor’s life, death and significance to the University was researched and […]
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