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• 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...

• Leicester screens Film about 7-year-old who saved the lives of 15 people

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/30-leicester-screens-film-7-year-old-saved-15-people

  Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival logo 2297|Oksijan is being screened as part of the 5th annual Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival The University of Leicester will host the Leicester screening of Oksijan, a short film by writer and director Edward...

• 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.

• Celebrating Black History Month 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/05/celebrating-black-history-month-2020/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 5 October 2020 This October is Black History Month, and in recognition of this, a number of activities have been planned throughout the University and School, writes Emily Baldwin.

• Attenborough Arts Centre Presents: ‘The Archive of An Unseen’ by Christopher Samuel

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/christopher-samuel

  Christopher Samuel: The Archive of An Unseen 5 May – 16 July 2023, Gallery 2 Attenborough Arts Centre is proud to announce our newest exhibition, ‘The Archive of An Unseen’ by multi-disciplinary artist Christopher Samuel.

• Award-winning University of Leicester film Harms of Hate revisited a decade on

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/harms-of-hate

  University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies will revisit its award-winning short film The Harms of Hate, a decade on.

• 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.

• 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...

• COVID-19 American History Project guide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/covid-19-american-history-project-guide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 American Folklife Center have produced a guide to materials they have collected about experiences of COVID 19.

• What is oral history?

  https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/oral-history/what-is

  History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. Find out how Oral History is defined and how it is useful for capturing stories, as a source of evidence and for investigating what people did and thought.