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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Joe Orton exhibition runs until 31 August 2014

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/07/14/joe-orton-exhibition-runs-until-31-august-2014/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 14, 2014 Our current exhibition in the Library, ‘Joe Orton in 1964’, which runs until 31 August 2014, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Orton’s first major success, Entertaining Mr Sloane .

• 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.

• 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.

• Miner’s Strike 1984-85 Digital collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/24/miners-strike-1984-85-digital-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2017 For those interested in industrial and labour history a collection of over 50 images relating to the 1980s strike have been added to the  People’s Collection of Wales.

• Sites for Pride Month

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/28/sites-for-pride-month/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 28, 2021 Europeana LGBT Plus  now has  a page of great historic LGBT resources  from Europe’s national and libraries and museums.

• University of Leicester receives VIP visit

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/university-of-leicester-receives-vip-visit

  Our University has today welcomed a VIP from the United States of America. It is a common misconception that ‘VIP’ always stands for Very Important Person. Actually, sometimes it stands for Very Important Per.

• Study sheds light on the genetics of stopping smoking

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/study-genetics-stopping-smoking

  The effectiveness of a common drug to quit smoking could be down to people’s genes, according to a study from the University of Leicester.