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Women’s history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/womens-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 Europeana has themed galleries relating to women’s history month.
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An LGBTQ+ history project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/an-lgbtq-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Paud’s Pins – an LGBTQ+ history project An LGBT community archive which comprises over 100 badges belonging to former Gay’s the Word bookshop manager Paud Hegarty.
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Experts probe Mumbais history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/experts-probe-mumbai2019s-history
The history of India’s richest city, Mumbai, has been explored at an international conference co-convened by the University of Leicester.
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Events in Leicester this October 2017 for Black History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/04/events-in-leicester-this-october-2017-for-black-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2017 Phoenix Square marks Black History Month with a series of films programmed by local arts organisation Serendipity, in partnership with the University of Leicester, a one-off...
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LGBT History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/02/07/lgbt-history-month-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2020 LGBT history month (February) is a good time to revisit these free British Library resources: LGBTQ histories on the British Library website explores the development of LGBTQ...
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DNA and family history explored in public lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture
The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.
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The Centre for Regional and Local History’s New Library Spaces
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/new-library-spaces
Back in 2021 the Centre for English Local History moved out of Marc Fitch House at 3-5 Salisbury Road, where it had resided since 1988, to a new space on the University’s main campus.
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Caroline Lucas and ‘The Rest is History’ Podcast headline 2025 Literary Leicester festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/literature-festival-caroline-lucas-rest-is-history
Literary Leicester is the University's free annual literature festival.
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LGBT+ History month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/31/lgbt-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2019 February is LGBT+ History month. Here is a list of some of the many LGBT-related resources in the library https://rl.talis.
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LGBT+ history exhibitons, plus playlist
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/02/23/lgbt-history-exhibitons-plus-playlist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2022 Online exhibition from the Bishopsgate Institute to commemorate LGBT+ history month and a physical exhibition they are holding at the Barbican centre.