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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.
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TfL Corporate Archives on Google Arts and Culture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/08/tfl-corporate-archives-on-google-arts-and-culture/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2024 A site with solid historical content. Find time lines and details about each tube line, maps, design and even the lost property of London Underground.
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American women making history and culture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/6127/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 The American Women Making History and Culture, 1963-1982 (“American Women”) collection on the internet archive includes Pacifica Radio Archives’ holdings from the five...
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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...
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University celebrates largest online collection of local oral history recordings in the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/university-celebrates-largest-online-collection-of-local-oral-history-recordings-in-the-uk
A free public event to celebrate the publication of over 400 interviews recorded by the Leicester Oral History Archive between 1983 and 1990 will be held at the David Wilson Library on 1 March.
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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.
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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...
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The Centre for Victorian Studies
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies
Welcome to the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. We have a distinguished record of innovation and excellence in interdisciplinary Victorian Studies research and teaching at postgraduate level.
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John Lewis-University of Leicester Black History Month project wins award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/bhm
A collaboration between the University of Leicester and the city’s John Lewis department store has received a Black History Month award.
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Attenborough Arts hosts 'unapologetic display' of Criminal Ornamentation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/19-yinka-shonibare-exhibition
International artist Yinka Shonibare MBE presents a celebration of pattern, repetition and colour from 22 September to 16 December at the Attenborough Arts Centre.