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• Colin Hyde

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/colin_hyde/

  Colin Hyde manages the East Midlands Oral History Archive, based in Special Collections.

• Leicester study to improve crop plants

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

  Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

• 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

• ‘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...

• 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

• Socially purposeful organisations

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/socially-purposeful-organisations

  RCMG has powerfully shaped the way we understand the social roles, potentials and responsibilities of museums, galleries and heritage sites.

• The Anti-Corruption Summit

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/the-anti-corruption-summit/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 The Anti-Corruption Summit  has taken place in London.  The UK government website contains the proposals for international reform.