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  • The schoolboy sketches of John Leech

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...

  • Collections development strategy (Archives and Special Collections)

    https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/special-collections-strategy

    Introduction The University Library’s Archives and Special Collections contains archives, manuscripts and rare books owned by or loaned to the University of Leicester.

  • Podcast celebrates 10 years of major local health study with global impact

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/exceed-podcast

    Researchers behind a major health study involving 11,000 patients across the city and county have highlighted the benefits it has brought over the past 10 years

  • Government issues record grant to University of Leicester to help students study abroad

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/turing-grant-scheme

    University of Leicester has been awarded over £1 million from the UK Government’s Turing Scheme

  • 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.

  • Writing yourself into the archives

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/06/05/writing-yourself-into-the-archives/

    Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2020 Seeing other institutions’ reactions to the coronavirus pandemic has encouraged the Archives & Special Collections team to think about what we can do to collect Leicester’s responses to it, both official and...

  • 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

  • ‘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...

  • COVID-19: study into long-term health impacts launched

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/covid-19-study-long-term-health-impacts

    A major UK research study into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients has been launched.

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