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  • Frost Fairs on the Thames

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/12/01/frost-fairs-on-the-thames/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 1, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Francesco Bartolozzi. From the Fairclough Collection, EP 36, Box 7, p. 590.

  • ‘A photographic revolutionary’

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/11/21/a-photographic-revolutionary/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 21, 2014 ‘The Snow Garden’, P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson, ‘Marsh Leaves’, (London, 1895), pl. XII, SCM 08575. University of Leicester Special Collections.

  • Poll Books in Special Collections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.

  • Death’s Doings

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/24/deaths-doings/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 24, 2015 In spite of all the Hypochondriac’s attempts to keep sickness at bay, Death comes whizzing down the chimney in the form of a skeletal spider. The Hypochondriac’s cat remains unmoved.

  • Happy International Archives Day 2018!

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/happy-international-archives-day-2018/

    Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2018 The University records manager, David Jenkins, and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) thought we’d take the opportunity to flag up IAD18 and explain a bit about what we do all day!   On the 9th of...

  • Gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil unearthed in Oxfordshire

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/gigantic-pterosaur

    University of Leicester researcher involved in study of one of the largest pterosaurs of the Jurassic era

  • River monster

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/spinosaurus

    An extraordinary discovery by a team of palaeontologists, including Dr David Unwin, published in Nature, rewrites our understanding of how dinosaurs lived.

  • New study considers whether age affects your experiences on an undergraduate degree

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/new-study-considers-whether-age-affects-your-experiences-on-an-undergraduate-degree

    With significant numbers of students entering Higher Education over the age of 21, a University of Leicester project examines whether age is just a number for undergraduate students.

  • Mapping vanished Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/06/mapping-vanished-leicester/

    More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.

  • Simon Dixon: Page 2

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/simon_dixon/page/2/

    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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