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  • Stories about…Music

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2026/01/20/stories-about-music/

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on January 20, 2026 The East Midlands Oral History Archive contains many thousands of recordings, almost all of which take the form of a story, whether as an oral history interview, a radio programme, a speech, or a song...

  • Summer Holidays

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/23/happy-holidays/

    Blog post recalling Summer Holidays taken by people from Leicester and Leicestershire, as recorded in the East Midlands Oral History Archive

  • Sue Townsend’s Fan Mail

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/01/24/sue-townsends-fan-mail/

    Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on January 24, 2019   Guest Post from Helen Ward, Library Assistant in Archives and Special Collections.

  • ‘Strangers in the land’?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/08/strangers-in-the-land/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2016 Our current exhibition, ‘”Strangers in the land”? Impressions of India’ traces the history of the British in India from the early 17 th century to the turn of the 20 th .

  • Sherry in the filing-cabinet – and as for the milk-jug …

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/13/sherry-in-the-filing-cabinet-and-as-for-the-milk-jug/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 13, 2016 Our current exhibition from the Special Collections, ‘”Strangers in the Land”? Impressions of India’, explores the attitudes and reactions of the British in India, from the early 17 th century to the...

  • More on overtime

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/more-on-overtime/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 How much overtime do British workers do? The Office for National Statistics has  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) .

  • A day in the life: research services at Figshare Fest May 2023

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/20/a-day-in-the-life-research-services-at-figshare-fest-may-2023/

    Posted by Laurian Williamson in Library and Learning Services on June 20, 2023 Tom Moore, Research Services Consultant for open research recently attended the annual Figshare Fest at Manchester Museum.

  • Town Commemorates Convicts, by Minako Sakata

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/29/town-commemorate-convicts-by-minako-sakata/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on September 29, 2014 At the end of August, I visited Tsukigata, a small town in Hokkaido where the Kabato Central Prison was located from 1881 to 1919.

  • Easter for social scientists

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/17/easter-for-social-scientists/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2019 Just for fun here are some interesting research related facts on Easter chocolate! This infographic from Statista  has some basic facts on who celebrates Easter and what they do.

  • Cities

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/cities-2/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014  Cities of Opportunity   Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.  Covers 30 major cities worldwide.

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