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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Penny Bloods on display in the Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/09/penny-bloods-on-display-in-the-library/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2014 Penny Bloods, popular from the 1840s to the 1860s, were so named because of their preoccupation with the gory and sensational.

• 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.