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Midlands oral history and sound resources
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/midlands
In 2025, Dr Elizabeth Blood and Colin Hyde created an audit of audio archives in the Midlands. This updated the Midlands entries of a UK-wide audit compiled by the British Library in 2015 as a precursor to the Save Our Sounds project.
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D-Day in the East Midlands Oral History Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/05/30/d-day-in-the-east-midlands-oral-history-archive/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on May 30, 2024 The 1980s saw many oral history projects start across the UK.
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Archaeology and Ancient History
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology
Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester is home to a world-class, international team of scholars engaged in cutting-edge research and teaching.
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The female Form through time
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/the-female-form-through-time/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 The female Form through time: Google Arts and Culture exhibition Online resource curated by the Discovery Museum which shows how fashion, clothing and culture have dictated...
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/213/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/8/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Charnwood Forest villagers to uncover hidden history in their own gardens
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/charnwood-community-archaeology-dig
Discover how Charnwood Forest villagers are uncovering hidden history through community archaeology digs in gardens and public spaces this May.
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Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/colonial-countryside
Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity. Requests for the Colonial Countryside packs, written by author and history teacher Dan Lyndon-Cohen, have gone from one or two a week to more than 30 a day.
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The World of Walton Burrell: photographer, traveller and deaf pioneer
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/05/24/the-world-of-walton-burrell-photographer-traveller-and-deaf-pioneer/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2024 The World of Walton Burrell : photographer, traveller and deaf pioneer. An online exhibition maintained by by Suffolk archives, about the Victorian trailblazer.
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£1.8m AHRC funding awarded to Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/ahrc-grant
Nearly two million pounds of funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has been awarded to the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History (SAAH) to upgrade its archaeological material laboratories.