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An international coincidence?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/04/15/an-international-coincidence/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 15, 2013 One of the most fascinating things about my job is looking at the background of our distance learning students when they complete their applications to study with us…Where do they come from? What do...
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Holiday Memories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/05/holiday-memories/
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.
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Evidence of 2,000 years of human activity found on market site in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/evidence-2000-years-human-activity-market
University of Leicester Archaeological Services carrying out excavations at the site of the city’s new market square, with discoveries including a Roman infant burial and remains of a dungeon believed to be from the 16th century
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Student placement in Special Collections, Week 3-4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/08/14/student-placement-in-special-collections-week-3-4/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on August 14, 2025 Guest post written by Yi-Chen Su and Yongqin Huang, who are completing an eight week placement in Archives & Special Collections as part of their MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies .
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Announcing the Carceral Archipelago Conference Call for Papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/03/announcing-the-carceral-archipelago-conference-call-for-papers/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 3, 2014 We are excited to open the Call For Papers (CFP) for the Carceral Archipelago’s upcoming international conference, The Carceral Archipelago: Transnational Circulations in Global Perspective,...
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Joe Orton, Edna Welthorpe and Creative Writing by Bryony Adshead
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2017/11/10/joe-orton-edna-welthorpe-and-creative-writing-by-bryony-adshead/
Posted by Emma Parker in School of English Blog on November 10, 2017 After signing up for an Open Day at the University of Leicester, I was intrigued to receive an email regarding the ‘Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)’ creative writing competition, run by Dr Emma Parker...
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A new annual journal: Museum Worlds
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2013/10/28/a-new-annual-journal-museum-worlds/
Posted by Sandra Dudley in School of Museum Studies Blog on October 28, 2013 Excitingly, a new journal appeared in the world of museum studies this summer.
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Videogames
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/videogames/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Recently a British teenager won almost a million in championships of the computer game Fortnite.
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Careers: Work experience with the SAPPHIRE research group
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2018/01/31/careers-work-experience-with-the-sapphire-research-group/
Want to know more about the work of SAPPHIRE and what it's like to work here? SAPPHIRE recently had the opportunity to have a Sociology undergraduate student do a work experience placement with us.
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Veronica Heney
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/author/vh58/
Communications Assistant to the SAPPHIRE Group