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The Ripple: An Archival Retrospective
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/08/08/the-ripple-an-archival-retrospective/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on August 8, 2025 Guest post written by Carter Buckingham who has been volunteering in Special Collections since August 2024.
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Coventry Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/11/22/coventry-archives-2/
A description of the collections from Coventry Archives that have been digitised by the UOSH project.
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Cross-Post: Why we must reform organ donation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/08/30/cross-post-why-we-must-reform-organ-donation/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on August 30, 2018 Organ Donation in England is changing. Accountability for health policy leaders is important, especially when politicians score headlines for healthcare interventions without an evidence-base.
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Digging Out the Past – the legacy of Alan McWhirr
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/06/13/digging-out-the-past-the-legacy-of-alan-mcwhirr/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on June 13, 2019 Alan McWhirr in a field. The first collection we have finished digitising for the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project is a monthly radio series about archaeology, Digging Out the Past.
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Joe Orton exhibition runs until 31 August 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/07/14/joe-orton-exhibition-runs-until-31-august-2014/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 14, 2014 Our current exhibition in the Library, ‘Joe Orton in 1964’, which runs until 31 August 2014, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Orton’s first major success, Entertaining Mr Sloane .
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The many languages of Sue Townsend
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/08/22/the-many-languages-of-sue-townsend/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2014 The Special Collections team has been joined for the last couple of weeks by Claire Preval , an undergraduate intern from the Department of the History of Art and Film.
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Incentives alone won’t bring gender equality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/01/incentives-alone-wont-bring-gender-equality/
Posted by Doris Ruth Eikhof in School of Business Blog on October 1, 2014 Doris Ruth Eikhof*, Senior Lecturer in Work and Employment at the School, underlines why there’s so much more to the problem of gender inequality than the task of getting the incentives right Those...
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vholmes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/catherine_holmes/
Blog 3: Items of Interest chosen by Jenni Hunt. Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on April 9, 2021 Over the past few months I have been working on listing the University of Leicester’s Administrative Archive.
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Minutes
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/council/minutes
Find minutes for Council meetings from the 2012-13 academic year through to the present, as well as contact details for requesting minutes for meetings which took place in earlier years.
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Shot at dawn in the Great War: Re-evaluating justice in the case of Harry Farr. By Floris Tomasini
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/10/03/shot-at-dawn/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 3, 2016 Today’s post looks at a re-evaluation of justice in an emblematic case study; Harry Farr who was shot for cowardice during the Great War.