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• Leicester researcher contributes to space arts odyssey

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-researcher-contribute-to-space-arts-odyssey

  ESA and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (pictured), with the BBK Foundation, are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Spanish arts centre with a performance of Chasmata, a journey to Mars through contemporary art, music and architecture.

• Digitising the Coventry Archives oral history collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/coventry-archives/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 by Richard Wheelband, UOSH Midlands Digitisation Engineer   The Unlocking Our Digital Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub is based in Special Collections at the University of Leicester and is preserving ‘at...

• UK Disability History Month 2022: The Mosaic Oral History Collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/11/18/uk-disability-history-month-2022-the-mosaic-oral-history-collection/

  Posted by Lily Skelton in Library and Learning Services on November 18, 2022 16 November to 16 December 2022 is UK Disability History Month , an annual event creating a platform to focus on the history of the rights and dignity of disabled people.

• LGBT History Digital Collaboratory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/lgbt-history-digital-collaboratory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 Exciting project based at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA), the Transgender Archives...

• Disability History Month 2023

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/11/16/disability-month-2023/

  Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on November 16, 2023 To mark UK Disability History Month , which falls between 16 th November and 16 th December, Archives and Special Collections are showcasing items from our holdings which shed light on these...

• English Football: a Social History MOOC

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/mooc-english-football/2020

  This is for you if... you want to find out more about the history, sociology and politics of football with a focus on Leicester City FC.

• National Archives: Sexuality and gender identity history

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/national-archives-sexuality-and-gender-identity-history/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 A guide on research on gender and sexuality in the UK National Archives. Emphasis is on their holdings of government, legal and police records.

• Oral history archives in the East Midlands

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/oral-history-archives-in-the-east-midlands

  Please note that this list is selective. Derbyshire Chesterfield Library accept any relevant donations of oral history recordings.

• Cast of ancient skull of Bede the Father of English history rediscovered

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/cast-of-ancient-skull-of-bede-the-father-of-english-history-rediscovered

  A cast of the skull of Bede – the ‘Father of English History’ – has been rediscovered by Professor Jo Story from the School of History within the anatomical collections of the Duckworth Laboratory in the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES) at the...

• Introduction to Roman History

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah1011

  Module code: AH1011 How did Rome transform from a small city state to the ruler of the world? What changes did the Romans bring to the territories that they conquered? How can we piece together the earliest history of the Mediterranean world from texts and...