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• The Great British Bake-Off, but not as we know it!

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/08/12/the-great-british-bake-off-but-not-as-we-know-it/

  Posted by csampson in Library Special Collections on August 12, 2016   If rumour proves to be correct, the seventh series of the Great British Bake Off is due to appear on our screens towards the end of August.

• Library Internship

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/02/20/internship/

  Posted by Ceri Ashwell in Library Special Collections on February 20, 2014 From the majority of people I’ve spoken to it seems that few expected to work in academic libraries after leaving university.  And the same goes for me.

• Lifting: An Easter Custom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/03/21/lifting-and-heaving-an-easter-custom/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on March 21, 2016 Lifting – an Easter Custom from William Hone, The Every-Day Book (London, 1826), vol. 1, p.

• Our current exhibition ‘Joe Orton in 1964’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/06/03/our-current-exhibition-joe-orton-in-1964/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 3, 2014 When Joe Orton’s play Entertaining Mr Sloane was performed in the West End in 1964, it provoked both virulent criticism and glowing praise – he enjoyed both in equal measure.    The critic W.

• BBC Radio Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/15/bbc-radio-leicester/

  A page describing the BBC Radio Leicester collections that were preserved by the UOSH Midlands team.

• Dryad Collection – S is for Smock and Sheepskin

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/06/29/dryad-collection-s-is-for-smock-and-sheepskin/

  Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on June 29, 2022 As I continue to catalogue the Dryad Collection , some of the books stand out as belonging to a different era of attitudes towards clothes.

• Digging Out the Past – the legacy of Alan McWhirr

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/06/13/digging-out-the-past-the-legacy-of-alan-mcwhirr/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on June 13, 2019 Alan McWhirr in a field. The first collection we have finished digitising for the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project is a monthly radio series about archaeology, Digging Out the Past.

• The many languages of Sue Townsend

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/08/22/the-many-languages-of-sue-townsend/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2014 The Special Collections team has been joined for the last couple of weeks by Claire Preval , an undergraduate intern from the Department of the History of Art and Film.

• The characteristics of successful entrepreneurs?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/11/17/the-characteristics-of-successful-entrepreneurs/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2014 A recent report by the Centre for Policy Studies revealed the backgrounds of over of 1,000 high earning individuals.

• Postgraduate study

  https://le.ac.uk/english/study/postgraduate

  English at the University of Leicester has a thriving postgraduate community. Find out more about our courses.