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• A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.

• Don’t panic, Mary Berry’s Bakewell tart recipe is safe!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/19/dont-panic-mary-berrys-bakewell-tart-recipe-is-safe/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 19, 2016 University of Leicester Homepage, 13 June 1997 (source: Wayback Machine) It is almost impossible to conduct academic research today without at some stage needing to access information on the internet.

• Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 14

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/14/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Discovering Collections Discovering Communities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/15/discovering-collections-discovering-communities/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 15, 2015 This week I attended the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference in the impressive Lowry Centre at Salford Quays.

• Margaret Maclean

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/mm219/

  Library Assistant, Rare Books and Archives in the University Library

• War of the Worlds Letters

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/war-of-the-world-letters/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 A digital library collection from the University of Michigan , The Richard Wilson – Orson Welles Papers preserves 1,349 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s...

• Early-Career Researchers: your views are needed

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/30/early-career-researchers-your-views-are-needed/

  Posted by William Farrell in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 30, 2015   The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) want to find out more about the issues facing early-career social scientists.

• Big Allied and Dangerous (BAAD) online platform

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/big-allied-and-dangerous-baad-online-platform/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 …from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) University of Maryland.

• Ill Effects

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/ill-effects/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 A bi-weekly research-informed series on media “influences” hosted by academics Ben Litherland and Richard McCulloch.

• The Graduate Gender Pay Gap

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/16/the-graduate-gender-pay-gap/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2020 The graduate gender pay gap report from Hepi .