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• The Habitable City

  https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/research/the-habitable-city

  The University of Leicester's Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the Habitable City project.

• Civil Rights cold case portal

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/civil-rights-cold-case-portal/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Recently launched by the US National Archives this site provides access to records of unsolved racially-motivated crimes during the 20th century in the USA.

• James Arthur (Jim) Mackley

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/jim-mackley

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr Jim Mackley. Jim joined the Department of Genetics as a technician in 1964, and was then Chief Technician in the Department of Biochemistry from 1981 until his retirement.

• British summer holiday habits of the past explored by Leicester researchers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/british-summer-holiday-habits-of-the-past-explored-by-leicester-researchers

  Visiting different countries and traveling the world is a common way people spend their summer holidays - but the historical British summer holiday would have been a much less frequent and far more local affair.

• A System of Reintegration and Control: The Dual Functionality of Regional Convict Depots in Western

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/03/20/a-system-of-reintegration-and-control-the-dual-functionality-of-regional-convict-depots-in-western-australia/

  Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on March 20, 2017 By Kellie Moss   Fremantle Prison, Western Australia (authors own image).   The history of convict confinement in Western Australia has been dominated by one towering limestone structure: Fremantle prison.

• Windrush Passengers 1948 Arrival List

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/25/windrush-passengers-1948-arrival-list/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 25, 2019 Digitised by Goldsmiths University of London new transcription of the Windrush passenger list the original of which is held at The National Archives.

• About the project

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-carceral-archipelago/about-the-project

  The overall goal of this study is to provide a theoretical, empirical and analytical approach to the transnational, or global, study of convict transportation and its legacies, and its relationship to the history of labour, migration, and confinement.

• MAVISE

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/30/mavise/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 30, 2011 A database of TV companies and channels in the European Union and Candidate countries. http://mavise.obs.coe.

• Andrew Dunn: Page 30

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/30/

  Academic Librarian.

• Virtual Vauxhall Gardens

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/vvg/2019/04/02/virtual-vauxhall-gardens/

  Posted by in Virtual Vauxhall Gardens on April 2, 2019   Introduction   Virtual Vauxhall Gardens is a multidisciplinary project to create a multi-sensory, user-controlled, VR reconstruction of the experience of Vauxhall Gardens in 1752.