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 […]
Sounds for the Future
In July 2022, the Sounds for the Future project has been up and running for two months and this blog looks at the reasons for running the project, what we have done so far and the issues this has raised. What is Sounds for the Future? This is a project that is funded by the […]
How much do you know about the founders and early benefactors of our University? by Caroline Wessel
To celebrate our Centenary Years, Special Collections would like to share with you new research, which not only paints a picture of the how we were founded, but also the way of life and the connection of local families at that time. Our volunteer researcher, University Court and Centenary Project Board Member Caroline Wessel takes […]
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 […]
Florence Rich and Granville School for Girls
On 14 November 1917 The Leicester Daily Post, edited by W. G. Gibbs, published a leader article proposing the foundation of a University College as a war memorial for Leicester and Leicestershire (University of Leicester Archives, ULA/PCB1, p. 1). Among the first to respond in support of the proposal was Miss Florence Rich, the Principal […]
Midwifery training, 1928-1947
This week the appointment of our first Professors of Nursing and Midwifery have been announced by the University. Professor Jayne Marshall joins as Foundation Professor of Midwifery and Professor David Clarke as Foundation Professor of Nursing, as new degree programme are announced in both disciplines. While this will be the first time that midwifery courses have […]
Who were our first students?
There’s always an extra buzz around campus at this time of year, as we welcome all our new students to the University. With student societies out in force looking for new recruits, there are plenty of opportunities to meet new people, explore new interests, and enjoy all of the excitement that student life has to […]
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