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• History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/history-of-the-anti-apartheid-movement-in-britain/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 Forward to Freedom:  The History of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain 1959-1994.

• ‘One of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/08/01/one-of-the-most-remarkable-men-in-the-entire-history-of-archaeology/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on August 1, 2017 Two hundred years ago, on 1 August 1817, the adventurer-Egyptologist Giovanni Belzoni, described by Howard Carter, with good reason, as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of...

• Tequila: Pulque’s Friend, Cousin, Usurper?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/01/tequila-pulques-friend-cousin-usurper/

  Deborah Toner discusses the relationship and rivalry between pulque and tequila in Mexican history, and summarises a recently published book by Marie Sarita Gaytan, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2014)

• Oral history recordings from Gay Christian activists

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/04/oral-history-recordings-from-gay-christian-activists/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2023 From LSE digital library, this series includes the recordings of interviews with pioneering Gay Christian activists, advocates and allies, carried out as part of an heritage project...

• Women like that: lesbian and gay history

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/07/26/women-like-that-lesbian-and-gay-history/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2013 Jane Traies, who is based at the University of Surrey, is pioneering research on the lives of older lesbians in the UK.

• National Archives: Sexuality and gender identity history

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/national-archives-sexuality-and-gender-identity-history/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 A guide on research on gender and sexuality in the UK National Archives. Emphasis is on their holdings of government, legal and police records.

• Immigration and indigenism in popular historical discourses

  https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/immigration-and-indigenism

  Research Associate: Dr Marc Scully The relationship between a sense of national or regional identity and collective memory has been a matter of longstanding concern across a range of disciplines, including social psychology, sociology, history and politics.

• Leicester archaeology monographs

  https://le.ac.uk/ulas/publications/monographs

  Browse the monographs published by University of Leicester Archaeological Services.

• Academics pipe up with a new interpretation of history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/pipes

  The historic misuse of the humble smoker’s pipe has led to two University of Leicester academics’ realisation that we might be missing a trick when it comes to interpreting history.

• COVID-19 American History Project guide

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/covid-19-american-history-project-guide/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 American Folklife Center have produced a guide to materials they have collected about experiences of COVID 19.