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• Putumayo: the History and Culture of a Latin American Conflict Zone

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/sp3155

  Module code: SP3155 This module will focus on the history and culture of the Putumayo, a region of the Colombian Amazon which shares a border with Ecuador and Peru.

• The Country House and the Collecting of Art: Evolution and Dispersal

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ha7101

  Module code: HA7101 This module is concerned with the collecting of works of art, above all in the context of the English country house.

• Disability arts online

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/19/disability-arts-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2022 Disability arts online , led by disabled UK artists, includes advice and support for  disabled artists as well as listings, reviews, news relating to the arts and accessibility to...

• The history of Leicesters printing press

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/the-history-of-leicesters-printing-press

  In a feature entitled 'Printing in Leicester', Dr John Hinks from the Centre for Urban History has discussed the ups and downs of Leicester's printing press throughout history.

• Women and art in London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/women-and-art-in-london/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 A project undertaken by Jeremy Smith and Charlotte Hopkins at The London Archives has revealed new information on women artists and publishers in practising in London during 1600s – 1800s.

• Irish Independence film collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/irish-independence-film-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 Free access via the Irish Film Institute player to this great collection of British news reel films covering the period 1900-1930 with such key events as WW1, the Easter Rising, the...

• Research seminar: 'Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations'

  https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events/talking-transformations

  Find out about our research seminar: 'Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations', with guest speaker Dr Manuela Perteghella.

• Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/freedom-to-marry-oral-history-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Free access to this important collection from the University  of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center .

• The people in the film

  https://le.ac.uk/centenary/so-that-they-may-have-life/people

  The film shows Dr Astley Clarke and Lily McCurdy walking the same path a century apart. The film features students, alumni and staff playing the roles in the film.

• Departmental prizes

  https://le.ac.uk/english/study/departmental-prizes

  English offers the following undergraduate and postgraduate prizes after our Boards of Examiners at the end of each academic year. G. S. Fraser Prize Winner of a poetry competition adjudicated by staff in English.