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September Book Group: Labels – The University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/09/28/september-book-group-labels/
Evelyn Waugh Book Group write up on Waugh's 1930 travel book, Labels.
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Admin, Conference, and Website, Oh My!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/04/22/admin-conference-and-website-oh-my/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on April 22, 2015 In the year since I joined The Carceral Archipelago, it has been a pleasure to support the novel and extensive research being conducted by the project’s members.
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Tehmina Kazi reading and Muslim LGBT activism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2016/06/29/tehmina-kazi-reading-and-muslim-lgbt-activism/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on June 29, 2016 As the final event of the Queering Islam events series for 2015-2016, Tehmina Kazi , the Director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy , visited us at the University of Leicester to do a...
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Acting the Academic
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/05/12/acting-the-academic/
Posted by Angus Cameron in School of Business Blog on May 12, 2015 Deputy Head of School, Angus Cameron , reflects upon one of the stranger tasks he has been asked to perform: being a central character in a murder mystery novel.
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Impossible Desires: the Novels and Films of Shamim Sarif
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/06/25/impossible-desires-the-novels-and-films-of-shamim-sarif/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on June 25, 2015 As part of my Queer Diasporas project, I’ve been researching the work of the still not too widely known British novelist and filmmaker Shamim Sarif, whose existence I’ve been...
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Simon Dixon
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/simon_dixon/
I am Archives and Special Collections Manager within the University Library. My role is to manage and develop the Library's and other University research collections and exploit digital technologies to reach new audiences for these collections.
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Black History timeline: enslavement, resistance and abolition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/black-history-timelines/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created through a collaboration between Black Cultural Archives and Royal Holloway, University of London this timeline includes chronologies and digitised documents from the BCA and...
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Russell Lee coal mining exhibits
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/russell-lee-coal-mining-exhibits/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 From the US National archives historic photographs of working lives in the USA.
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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.
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Lost boys and fairies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/24/lost-boys-and-fairies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2024 Heart-wrenching drama about a gay couple trying to adopt a child in present-day Wales. See all 3 episodes on this BoB playlist .