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Contents of display case draw
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-6/
7. Display case draw containing oak galls, inks and pigments used by medieval scribes and illuminators.
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Making a box for the Grant of Arms
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/grantofarms4/
Apertures are cut for the seals. Image: Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
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Stolen Relations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/stolen-relations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 A digital repository about enslaved indigenous people from Brown University. Includes a collection of historical primers on Indigenous slavery in the Americas, timelines, maps and documents.
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200 paintings for 200 years
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/200-paintings-for-200-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 A chronological catalogue of in-depth reference cards for 200 of the most famous resources.
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Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/encyclopedia-of-camps-and-ghettos-1933-1945/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 From Project MUSE, in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, volumes I-IV are now fully searchable, open-access, digital publications.
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Illicit Goods Mitigation Portal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/illicit-goods-mitigation-portal/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 A website created by the Universal Postal Union which provides information on the trade in fakes and counterfeit goods, pharmaceuticals and plants.
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Dryad Basketry
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/11/dryad-basketry/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 11, 2024 https://www.leicestermuseums.
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Mr Loverman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/06/mr-loverman/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2024 Playlist of an 8-part series which has just recently been broadcast on BBC1.
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MDB Reform Accelerator
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/mdb-reform-accelerator/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 MDB Reform Accelerator Multilateral Development Banks, or MDBs, are supranational institutions set up by sovereign states, which are their shareholders.
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Cities in Fiction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/12/cities-in-fiction/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2024 Cities in Fiction A project which is creating an online databases of cities mentioned in fiction. There is an emphasis on India. Browse to get an alphabetical list.