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Using maps to find out about the past
https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/historical-research/using-maps
History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. This guide gives tips and advice on using old maps to provide topographical and other information about places that is not readily available from other sources.
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New digital map remembers Vanished Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/new-digital-map-remembers-2018vanished-leicester2019
Leicester researchers have developed a new digital map of ‘Vanished Leicester’ which shows the transformation of the city in recent decades.
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2023 Autumn Seminar Series
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/2023-autumn-seminar-series
Autumn 2023 Seminar Series for the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester
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Professional services staff
https://le.ac.uk/history/people/professional-services-staff
Browse a list of the professional services staff currently working in History at Leicester. Find out ways to get in touch via telephone and email.
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What if the Philippines and Guinea belong to America?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/03/20/what-if-the-philippines-and-guinea-belong-to-america/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 20, 2014 In the context of the Carceral Archipelago project, my research addresses the circulation of convicts to and within colonial and post-colonial Latin America, in connection to other (“free” and “unfree”)...
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Disability and employment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/22/disability-and-employment/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2024 Trade Board records can give us a rare glimpse into the experiences and treatment of individual workers with disabilities or chronic illness in the early 20th century.
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Online newspaper archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/16/online-newspaper-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 16, 2016 A really useful listing from Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR) blog which draws together in one place an A-Z listing of links to news resources that can be difficult to...
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Doing archival research
https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/historical-research/archival-research
History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. This guide gives tips and advice on visiting an archive in order to find out about the documents they hold.
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Using an academic library
https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/besh/historical-research/academic-library
History at the University of Leicester - Building and Enriching Shared Heritages project. This guide gives you advice and tips on using an academic library
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Oliver Kearns
https://le.ac.uk/people/oliver-kearns
The academic profile of Dr Oliver Kearns, Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies at University of Leicester. Oliver researches state secrecy, sound, intelligence agencies, and media coverage of war. He is the author of The Covert Colour Line (Pluto Press, 2023).