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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.

  • 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 .

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Study abroad

    https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/undergraduate/study-abroad

    At the University of Leicester, MGeol students have the option of spending the third year of their degree studying at an overseas partner university. Current partners are the University of Arizona, USA and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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