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• 'The Isolated Baronet' Calke Abbey and RCMG address contemporary isolation and loneliness

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies/isolated-baronet

  Read more about ideas relating to contemporary isolation and loneliness - a research project led by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries.

• Final poppy wreaths laid at Rutland war memorials for Poppy Pilgrimage

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/rutland-poppy

  Poppy wreaths laid by the University at three war memorials in Rutland.

• University of Leicester Chancellor to deliver Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/university-leicester-chancellor-maggie-royal-institution-christmas-lectures

  University of Leicester Chancellor, Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, will give this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution.

• Digging for Britain: Leicestershire & Rutland archaeology projects to feature on BBC 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/digging-for-britain

  Projects led by Leicester archaeologists have been showcased on the new series of BBC Two’s primetime TV series Digging for Britain.

• Obituary

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/queen-elizabeth-ii/obituary

  It is with great sadness we reflect on Her Majesty The Queen’s connection to the University

• Expert panel to open up menopause ‘taboo’ at public discussion

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/difficult-conversations-menopause

  Professor King said: “What we wanted to do with this series is to talk about topics that are potentially quite difficult ones to talk about.

• May Day: early 19th century traditions

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/04/29/may-day-early-19th-century-traditions/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 29, 2016 Laying May branches Whilst many associate traditional celebrations of May Day with maypoles and Morris dancers, one early nineteenth century custom featured ‘Mayers’ (those included in May Day...

• MA Museum Studies Placement, Weeks 1-2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/07/29/ma-museum-studies-placement-weeks-1-2/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 29, 2022 by Christian Newth The Gorilla Word Games Book published in 1988 by Hodder & Stoughton Hello, my name is Christian Newth and I am a student doing my placement for the Museum Studies course here at the...

• MA Museum Studies Placement Weeks 3-4

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/12/ma-museum-studies-placement-weeks-3-4/

  Posted by can19 in Library Special Collections on August 12, 2022 Teddies in 3 Activity Sheet for Red Textbook 2 Cataloguing the Rose Griffiths Archive During week 3 I began to get deeper into the cataloguing process, and I also began to re-box all the material.

• Queen Elizabeth II

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/queen-elizabeth-ii

  The University of Leicester pays tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – 2022)