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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Videos highlighting women's compelling stories shortlisted for AHRC film awards
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-videos-highlighting-womens-compelling-stories-shortlisted-for-ahrc-film-awards
‘The Saving Tree’ and ‘Our Home’ created by Dr Brett Matulis from our School of Geography, Geology and the Environment have been shortlisted for 2018 Research in Film Awards
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Historian explores Chinas political history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/historian-explores-china2019s-political-history
Dr Michael Lynch, Honorary Fellow in our School of History, Politics & International Relations, recently gave a lecture at the University of Melbourne on China’s political history.
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The Legacy of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/legacy-of-leicester
From the discovery of the remains of Richard III to the invention of DNA fingerprinting, browse the extraordinary range of fields to which the University of Leicester has contributed.
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The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/08/16/the-glasgow-society-of-lady-artists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2024 Searchable resource biographies of members of The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists .
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Secrets of the Museum
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/03/19/secrets-of-the-museum/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 19, 2024 The BBC recently repeated the 2021 series of Secrets of the Museum, a behind-the-scenes look at the work of the conservators and curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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The report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities and reactions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/the-report-of-the-commission-on-race-and-ethnic-disparities-and-reactions/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 The report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities Reaction NHS Providers – disagree with the report Runnymede Trust response Institute of Race...