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• The value of Libraries

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/the-value-of-libraries/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Neil Gaiman writes for the Guardian about the value of libraries for children and adults alike http://www.theguardian.

• Centre for Regional and Local History

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history

  The Centre for English Local History is a research centre at the University of Leicester, committed to the study of local history throughout England and Wales. Find out more about our courses, research and projects.

• The Importance and Value of Views of England and Wales

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/views-england-wales

  Views of England and Wales is the latest collection to be added to University of Leicester Special Collections Online. It is the culmination of a project to digitise over 2,000 prints, paintings, drawings and photographs belonging to the Centre for Regional and Local History.

• Embrace Arts will soon be Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/embrace-arts-will-soon-be-attenborough-arts-centre

  The University of Leicester’s new gallery is moving towards its target completion date in Autumn 2015.

• Hidden Stories book launch celebrates Leicesters and Glossops Deindustrial Past

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/2018hidden-stories2019-book-launch-celebrates-leicester2019s-and-glossop2019s-de-industrial-past

  The AHRC-funded ‘Affective Digital Histories: Recreating De-industrial Places, 1970s to the Present’ project team will present an evening of original poetry and prose tomorrow (Tuesday 31 March) from 6:00pm at Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, Midland St.

• Permissible Beauty

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/permissible-beauty

  Permissible Beauty examines how beauty has been defined, hailed and perceived in the past and how this is reflected in – and shaped by – our nation’s heritage.

• Spring into the new year with Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/attenborough-arts-spring

  Read more about the Attenborough Arts Centre's new spring exhibitions, performances, workshops and other events.

• Writing local and family history

  https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/final-steps/local-family-history

  History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. This guide offers tips and advice for writing local and family history - what to do before you write, content, context, and writing style.

• What is the current state of the Internet?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/04/what-is-the-current-state-of-the-internet/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2019 Find out in the latest annual report on the global rate of connection from the ITU. This year’s theme is Broadband as Foundation for Sustainable Development.

• Heritage panels telling history of Leicester to be installed around city

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/heritage-panels-telling-history-of-leicester-to-be-installed-around-city

  Colin Hyde at the East Midlands Oral History Archive has written the text for forty heritage panels that are being installed around Leicester.