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Call for Peer Reviewers – Museological Review, Issue 27
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/03/19/call-for-peer-reviewers-museological-review-issue-27/
We are now inviting museum studies scholars to engage with us as peer reviewers for Issue 27 of Museological Review.
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Research Skills Training for Autumn 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/10/01/research-skills-training-for-autumn-2024/
Announcement of new research skills training events at the University of Leicester.
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Letters from the archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/10/22/letters-from-the-archives/
Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on October 22, 2024 Although today they have fallen out of fashion, letters were once one of the easiest, quickest and most popular methods of communication.
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From Berlin to Leicester: A Looted Book’s Tale
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/11/05/from-berlin-to-leicester-a-looted-books-tale/
Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on November 5, 2024 Please note that this post contains content relating to suicide and the Holocaust.
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Botanical Illustrations are not only pretty – they remain relevant today
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/05/12/botanical-illustrations-are-not-only-pretty-they-remain-relevant-today/
As the University has announced an exciting programme of Summer events at the Botanic Gardens in Oadby, we explore the art of botanical illustration through our Special Collections.
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Mercian conference: reflections from first time attendees
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/11/07/mercian-conference-reflections-from-first-time-attendees/
Posted by Laurian Williamson in Library and Learning Services on November 7, 2023 The 2023 Mercian collaboration conference was hosted at the University of Birmingham Exchange conference centre, in September 2023.
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The closed prison and the memory of anywhere-but-here
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/21/the-closed-prison-and-the-memory-of-everywhere-but-here/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 21, 2016 The prison of the wolvenplein (Wolves Square), located in the city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands), closed down in June 2014 as part of the budget cuts that have also affected the prison administration.
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Disgusting Dinner Conversation. By Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/10/01/disgusting-dinner-conversation/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 1, 2015 In the two months since joining the Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse project at the University of Leicester, I like to think I’ve become a highly desirable dinner guest.
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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/118/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Museums Alive!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/11/20/museums-alive/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on November 20, 2014 A guest blog post by Ryan Nutting Museums Alive! participants The PhD students at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies recently partnered with the Migration Museum Project to...