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Glorious Debo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/09/29/glorious-debo/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in School of English Blog on September 29, 2014 Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, often referred to as the “last Mitford sister”, has passed away. But Debo, as she was known to friends and family, was an institution in her own right.
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Mapping the Sounds of Leicestershire & Rutland
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/mapping-the-sounds-of-leicestershire-rutland/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 In the summer of 2020, three Museum Studies students at the University of Leicester (Elizabeth Gray, Lillian Namyaalo and Maria Georgiadou) joined the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage team to create a sound...
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The Plight of the Mandatory Volunteer Worker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/06/03/the-plight-of-the-mandatory-volunteer-worker/
Posted by Vanessa Beck in School of Business Blog on June 3, 2015 Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck , considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure...
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Forge Needle Museumn
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/11/22/forge-needle-museum/
A page describing the collections at Forge Needle Museum that the UOSH project has worked with.
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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.
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The “Pains of Imprisonment”: an historical sociology of penal transportation?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/11/11/the-pains-of-imprisonment-an-historical-sociology-of-penal-transportation/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 11, 2016 A few years ago, the eminent scholar of the Russian Gulag , Professor Judith Pallot , challenged me to consider the relevance of the sociology of incarceration as a means of understanding convict...
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University of Leicester remembers playwright Joe Orton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/university-of-leicester-remembers-playwright-joe-orton
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton and the occasion is being marked by a host of events remembering his work and involving our University. Joe Orton (1933-1967) was a leading postwar playwright.
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Richard III in the University Archives
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/university-archives/richard-iii-spotlight
Find out more about Richard III in the University archives.
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Derbyshire Record Office
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/15/derbyshire-record-office/
A page describing the collections the UOSH Midlands team preserved from the Derbyshire Record Office.
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