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  • 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.

  • Leicester in 1945 – the British Council & Harold White

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/05/01/leicester-in-1945-the-british-council-harold-white/

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on May 1, 2019 A few years ago, when I was working at the East Midlands Oral History Archive, I planned an oral history project that would record people’s memories of the immediate post-war years in Leicester.

  • Caring for our Special Collections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 6, 2015 Visitors to Special Collections often ask how we preserve the rare books, manuscripts and archives in our collection. Much of what we do could be described as preventative care.

  • Flooding

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/03/flooding/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 3, 2012 The Global Risk data platform is a multiple agencies (partners include UNEP) effort to share spatial data information on global risk from natural hazards this includes floods,...

  • Suicides: UK prisons and beyond

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/27/suicides-uk-prisons-and-beyond/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2017 Shocking news this week that the Ministry of Justice has recorded high levels of suicide in prison and an internal enquiry will be launched.

  • Smallpox in Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/05/05/smallpox-in-leicester/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 5, 2015 ‘The Wyvern Smiles’ from ‘The Wyvern’, (Leicester, 20 November 1891).

  • A quarter of FTSE 350 companies have only one woman on their board 

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/a-quarter-of-ftse-350-companies-have-only-one-woman-on-their-board/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 …according to the 2018  report of the Hampton-Alexander review  into increasing the number of women in senior positions in FTSE 350 companies.

  • Taiwan

    https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/countries/asia/taiwan

    We welcome students from Taiwan. Find out about entry requirements, the Taiwanese student community and other country-specific information.

  • Buried in the footnotes

    https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/buried-in-the-footnotes

    Buried in the Footnotes: the representation of disabled people in museum and gallery collections.

  • Distance Learning (DL) Sanctuary Awards

    https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/scholarships-discounts/dl-sanctuary

    Our Sanctuary Awards offer opportunities for those who have been forcibly displaced from their homes and/or who are at risk of political persecution, violence or conflict anywhere in the world to study with the University of Leicester part-time via distance learning.

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