Monthly Archives: December 2018

Come and work with us!

Posted on 21/12/2018 by Katharine Short

Come and join our team! We’ve secured a Wellcome Trust Research Resources Grant to catalogue an exciting set of collections relating to sports history including skiing, boxing, football and the Special Olympics! If you have any questions or want to … Continue reading →

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Review of 2018

Posted on 20/12/2018 by Katharine Short

What a year it’s been! Here’s a summary of some of the highlights… January: We had some wonderful new collections including Leicester Riders Basketball Club, Leicester Area National Union of Mineworkers, the papers of David Batchelor, community and youth work … Continue reading →

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The Oronto Douglas Collection

Posted on 13/12/2018 by Katharine Short

We are pleased to announce an exciting new collection – papers of Oronto Douglas, Nigerian environmental rights lawyer and alumni of DMU! Oronto Douglas was born in Okoroba, Nigeria. He attended the University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, … Continue reading →

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New website for Special Collections catalogues

Posted on 11/12/2018 by Katharine Short

Special Collections is delighted to announce that we have moved to a new cataloguing system with a dedicated new website! The system, Epexio by Metadatis, will give us more behind-the-scenes functionality that will enable us to improve the catalogues we … Continue reading →

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