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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/14/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Beatrix Potter – 150th Anniversary

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/28/beatrix-potter-150th-anniversary/

    Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 28, 2016   Iconic fictional characters of childhood can be attributed to the creativity of Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator of the late 19 th – early 20 th century.

  • Motor City Stories

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/motor-city-stories/

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 Archivist Gary Collins explains how the digitisation of an audio collection is enabling its contents to be used in a variety of ways, including for Coventry City of Culture 2021.

  • The GLAAD Studio Responsibility Index

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/27/the-glaad-studio-responsibility-index/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 27, 2020 How good is the representation of LGBTQ characters in major Hollywood films? Find out in  the latest annual report from GLAAD  which maps eight major motion picture...

  • EXILE installation marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/fifty-years-since-the-partial-decriminalisation-of-homosexuality-to-coincide-with-bold-new-installation-at-the-national-trust2019s-kingston-lacy-in-dorset

    A bold new installation at the National Trust’s Kingston Lacy in Dorset and involving researchers from our School of Museum Studies marks fifty years since the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality.

  • Images of BBC Radio Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/27/images-of-bbc-radio-leicester/

    Information about a collection of slides of BBC Radio Leicester

  • Outside and beyond: 'Deconstructing a Medieval manuscript'

    https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies/medieval-manuscript

    Museum Studies PhD student Armand De Filippo discusses his research into sensory responses to Medieval manuscripts.

  • Looking through the Record Office boxes

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/02/10/looking-through-the-record-office-boxes/

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on February 10, 2020 Ewan digitising the tapes. One of the features of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project is that we want to create the opportunity for volunteers to learn new skills.

  • How do the media create and spreads stories?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/08/how-do-the-media-create-and-spreads-stories/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2017 An interesting open-source site is M edia Cloud.   This is a joint project by the MIT Center for Civic Media and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

  • International studies confirm positive effects of weight loss medicine for people with obesity-related heart failure

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/obesity

    The results of two studies, led by Professor Melanie Davies, Director of the NIHR Leicester BRC and Co-Director of the Leicester Diabetes Centre, using weight loss medication, semaglutide, have now been published

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