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Ukrainian History Unearthed in East Midlands Oral History Archive’s Polish Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/09/03/ukrainian-history-unearthed-in-east-midlands-oral-history-archives-polish-collection/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on September 3, 2025 By Iona Kerstin Volynets September 05, 2025 Content warning: This article includes mentions of massacres, war, labour camps, death, and illness.
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Refugee Week: schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/19-refugee-week-primary-school-messages-of-hope
Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece. They will also create a storybook which will contain blank cards for children in the refugee camp to fill and send back - starting a dialogue between the children.
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Bishopsgate Institute Library and Archive: new online exhibitions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/10/05/bishopsgate-institute-library-and-archive-new-online-exhibitions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2012 http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ Since 2010 the London based Bishopsgate Institute has been digitizing some of its major archival collections.
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Carrie Crockett
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cmc62/
I am a postgraduate Ph.D. researcher working in connection with the Carceral Archipelago project. My work focuses on the Russian Far East and Sakhalin during the imperial era.
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Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/22/witnesses-wives-politicians-soldiers-the-women-of-waterloo/
Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 22, 2015 Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo By Katherine Astbury Associate Professor and Reader of French at University of Warwick Visit The Last Stand: Napoleon’s 100 Days in 100 Objects: www.
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Nursing student shortlisted for two prestigious awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/bethan-jones
Nursing student Bethan Jones is up for two prestigious awards
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Do hate speech detectors discriminate against African Americans?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/23/do-hate-speech-detectors-discriminate-against-african-americans/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 23, 2019 Shocking article on arXiv.org from the at the Annual Meeting for the Association for Computational Linguistics 2019.
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Robin Clarke
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/author/rc293/
Rob is the Learning Development Manager in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester.
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Goodbye winter, hello Indian spring – jaw-dropping crocus display celebrates Leicester’s diverse heritage
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/indian-spring-crocus-display-celebrates-leicesters-diverse-heritage
A mesmerising crocus display masterminded by a BBC Gardeners’ World presenter has bloomed in Leicester to celebrate the city’s rich cultural heritage.
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International Relations MA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/international-relations-ma/2026
The post-Cold War promise of a new ‘World Order’ was a defining historical moment. But how have international relations actually progressed in the years since? In this degree, you’ll explore this idea in extensive and illuminating detail.