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• Joe Orton: Behind the playwright

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/08/09/joe-orton-behind-the-playwright/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on August 9, 2017 The 9 th August 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester born playwright Joe Orton The past few years have seen heightened interest in Joe Orton’s literary career and personal...

• Joe Orton’s ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/06/joe-ortons-entertaining-mr-sloane/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 6, 2014 Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane was first performed at the New Arts Theatre Club 50 years ago today.

• The Works of John Gould

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/06/01/the-works-of-john-gould/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on June 1, 2022 Guest post by Ian Swirles, Special Collections Assistant. My name is Ian and I am the Special Collections Assistant at the University of Leicester Library.

• Understanding 9/11: A television news archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/26/understanding-911-a-television-news-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 26, 2016 Free access to this resource made available by the Internet Archive.

• Eric Henry Janson Teasdale (1896– 1917)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/20/eric-henry-janson-teasdale-1896-1917/

  21st January 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Eric Henry Janson Teasdale, who at the age of just twenty gave his life during the First World War.

• The female Form through time

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/04/15/the-female-form-through-time/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 15, 2021 The female Form through time: Google Arts and Culture exhibition  Online resource curated by  the Discovery Museum which shows how fashion, clothing and culture have dictated...

• Talking About Race

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/talking-about-race/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 New from  Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture  a site which is designed to provide free access to tools and resources  to help teachers,...

• The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/09/23/the-john-f-kennedy-presidential-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 23, 2011 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Search-the-Digital-Archives.

• Scrapbook exhibition

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/03/scrapbook-exhibition/

  Posted by csampson in Library Special Collections on October 3, 2016 The latest exhibition in the Special Collections programme is on the theme of scrapbooks.

• Accelerate Your Career placement 2019: guest post

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/06/19/accelerate-your-career-placement-2019-guest-post/

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