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Writing the Past
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah7703
Module code: AH7703 How did historians in the ancient world make sense of the past? What function did historical writing fulfil in Greece and Rome and how did this change throughout antiquity? How did historians shape their works rhetorically, and make their accounts seem...
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Writing the Past
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ah7703
Module code: AH7703 How did historians in the ancient world make sense of the past? What function did historical writing fulfil in Greece and Rome and how did this change throughout antiquity? How did historians shape their works rhetorically, and make their accounts seem...
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High Streets Recovery Tracker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/06/high-streets-recovery-tracker/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 6, 2020 High Streets Recovery Tracker Launched by the Centre for Cities to provide economic data on the recovery from the lock-down of Britain’s largest cities and towns.
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Bob Palmer
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/bob-palmer
Terry Brugha, Professor of Psychiatry, writes: It is with sad regrets that I bring to you the news of the death of our dear friend, colleague and Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Bob Palmer (Dr Robert L Palmer) who passed away on 3 September 2020.
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Locating London’s past
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/04/locating-londons-past/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2024 Locating London’s past This revamped website enables searching of digital resources relating to early modern and eighteenth-century London.
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Gertude Bell Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/10/13/gertude-bell-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 13, 2023 Based at Newcastle archive, the Gertrude Bell archive contains over 10,000 items including correspondence, diaries, photographs (albums and negatives as well as loose prints),...
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Andrew Dunn: Page 19
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/19/
Academic Librarian.
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Professor Corinne Fowler releases new book Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/colonial-countryside
University of Leicester’s Professor Corinne Fowler has released a new book published by Penguin exploring Great Britain’s countryside and its links to colonialism.
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Carnegie medals
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/19/carnegie-medals/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2025 The longlist for the 2025 Carnegies has been announced. The Carnegies are awards for books written for children and young adults.
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Gender bias in Chinese media
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/gender-bias-in-chinese-media/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Who makes the news in China? Men mainly.