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• Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/cabinet-of-curiosities

  A unique performance that challenges the way we think about disability.

• Study examines impact of slumming it and slum tourism

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/study-examines-impact-of-slumming-it-and-slum-tourism

  The notion of ‘Slumming it’ is to be brought under sharp focus at a discussion being held at our University A new study by Dr Fabian Frenzel, of the School of Business draws on knowledge and experience of slums in India, South Africa and South America.

• Human Rights and LGBTQ+

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/human-rights-and-lgbtq

  The work of RCMG has profoundly impacted the thinking and practices of the cultural sector and had significant positive benefits for museum visitors.

• A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.

• Study suggests ancient communities resisted farming practices

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-suggests-ancient-communities-resisted-farming-practices

  Research involving Leicester researchers has uncovered new evidence of lifestyles thousands of years ago.

• Collaborations and partnerships

  https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/ceah/collaborations

  American University Beirut, Lebanon Antiquities Department Zanzibar Az-Zaytuna University, Libya British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies (BILNAS), UK Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico (government ministry,...

• The Dreadful Burning of the City of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/08/the-dreadful-burning-of-the-city-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016 The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events...

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/101/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Andrew Dunn: Page 101

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/101/

  Academic Librarian.

• People

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/people

  Browse our list of academic staff, university fellows and honorary visiting staff and find out how to get in touch via telephone and email.