Resource room

Opening hours

Monday to Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm (term time)

Outside term time by appointment only. Please email burtoncentre@le.ac.uk.

About the Resource Room

The Stanley Burton Centre Resource Room (Attenborough tower 601) provides a physical space within the University of Leicester to facilitate, develop and co-ordinate the activities of the Centre.

This is where members meet to co-ordinate and develop activities, and where some of the Centre's events take place. It also provides access to specialised sources (primary sources, books, journals, etc.), facilities (computer and a laser printer) and a workspace available to students and volunteers of the Centre. Finally, it serves as a teaching and seminar venue for classes that are related to the Centre's activities.

The Resource Room is run by a group of student volunteers.

Volunteering

Our student volunteers supervise the Resource Room during opening hours, catalogue resources, compile a newspaper collection on topics relevant to the Centre (eg. anti-Semitism, racism, Holocaust, Nazism, groups and parties on the far right), and are involved in other activities in the Centre.

As a student volunteer you will acquire valuable work experience that will allow you to enhance your CV.

Please get in touch with the Student Volunteer Supervisors if you want to join the team.

Collection

Highlights of the collection include:

• The oral history archive Refugee Voices from the Association for Jewish Refugees (AJR, London), containing 150 audio-visual interviews with former refugees from Nazi Germany now living in Britain. (Licensed by kind permission of the Association of Jewish Refugees)
• More than 1,000 primary and secondary sources on the history of the Holocaust and related topics
• Films and documentaries on VHS/DVD
• Oral testimonies on CD.