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  • ‘A photographic revolutionary’

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/11/21/a-photographic-revolutionary/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 21, 2014 ‘The Snow Garden’, P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson, ‘Marsh Leaves’, (London, 1895), pl. XII, SCM 08575. University of Leicester Special Collections.

  • Poll Books in Special Collections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.

  • Discovering Collections Discovering Communities

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/15/discovering-collections-discovering-communities/

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 15, 2015 This week I attended the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference in the impressive Lowry Centre at Salford Quays.

  • Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 14

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/14/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Who owned the Wicked Bible?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/23/who-owned-the-wicked-bible/

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 23, 2015 It’s been reported in the news this week  that a copy of the so called “Wicked Bible” is to be auctioned at Bonhams in November.

  • Margaret Maclean

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/mm219/

    Library Assistant, Rare Books and Archives in the University Library

  • Local Politics in Leicester During the 1890s

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/29/local-politics-in-leicester-during-the-1890s/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 29, 2015 ‘The Wyvern Smiles’ from ‘The Wyvern’, (Leicester, 20 November 1891).

  • Margaret Maclean: Page 3

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/mm219/page/3/

    Library Assistant, Rare Books and Archives in the University Library

  • A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.

  • Pick your poison study examines the use of plant poison on prehistoric weaponry

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/pick-your-poison-study-examines-the-use-of-plant-poison-on-prehistoric-weaponry

    Archaeologists have long believed that our ancestors used poisons extracted from plants such as foxgloves and hemlock to make their weapons more lethal and kill their prey more swiftly.

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