Monthly Archives: January 2018

New Catalogues, January 2018

Posted on 30/01/2018 by Katharine Short

Thanks to the sterling efforts of Gursharan, our Graduate Champion, we have eight new catalogues live on the Archives Hub this month! They are a wide ranging selection of items relating to the history of DMU, fashion, and art. L/011: … Continue reading →

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#FolkloreThursday : Traditional Leicestershire Food

Posted on 25/01/2018 by Katharine Short

For this week’s #FolkloreThursday #food theme we turned to the Leicestershire and Rutland Magazine to see what local traditions there are surrounding mealtimes, cooking and eating. First we found an account of the hearty fare served to the workers during … Continue reading →

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First new collection of 2018

Posted on 22/01/2018 by Katharine Short

Our collections relating to textile and clothing manufacture are growing with the addition today of two boxes of knitted fabric samples from the Stibbe company, a Leicester company involved in the manufacture of industrial knitting machines. The samples were donated … Continue reading →

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Folklore Thursday 18/01/2018

Posted on 18/01/2018 by Dr Natalie Hayton

What an amazing theme for #FolkloreThursday this week! Requests for #clothing lore makes for the perfect opportunity to highlight this wonderful poster set produced by the International Wool Secretariat in 1954, titled ‘Costumes of Europe in Wool’. Each beautifully illustrated … Continue reading →

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New Collections

Posted on 17/01/2018 by Katharine Short

Just before Christmas we were excited to take in three new collections. We are processing them and will put catalogues for each one on the Archives Hub in due course. Meanwhile if you are interested in viewing the papers please … Continue reading →

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Folklore Thursday 11/01/2018

Posted on 11/01/2018 by Dr Natalie Hayton

As collections of European folk songs and poems, books on Nursery Rhymes became popular during the golden age of children’s literature in the mid-nineteenth century but many of the rhymes themselves are much older. Full of working-class imagery and trades … Continue reading →

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DMUglobal in New York 2018

Posted on 10/01/2018 by Dr Natalie Hayton

As hundreds of staff and students went on #dmuglobal’s second trip to New York  despite the disruptive weather bomb and the cancellation of many flights — and for all those that didn’t make it we’re pleased to know that a summer … Continue reading →

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Folklore Thursday 04/01/2018

Posted on 04/01/2018 by Dr Natalie Hayton

To kick off this year’s #FolkloreThursday then we have the theme of #Beginnings and what better way to start than by having a brief foray into one of the founding myths of the city of Leicester. Browsing through our local … Continue reading →

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#Love Archives Part 2

Posted on 03/01/2018 by Dr Natalie Hayton

While the official 2017 #ExploreArchives event finished in November we didn’t quite manage to get all our #lovearchive film clips ready in time and we’ve been excitedly waiting for them ever since. And here they are – because who wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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