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On the Bookshelf (November 2022)

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This month in ‘On the Bookshelf’ we feature ‘Game′ by Dr Tom Tyler (School of Media and Communication). The book is a playful reflection on animals and video games, and what each can teach us about the other.

Sadler Seminar Blog - Sensory Storytelling, Imagination and Wellbeing

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As we come towards the end of our Sadler series on Sensory storytelling, Imagination, and Wellbeing, this seems a good time to reflect on the project and its potential for continued exploration. The project was initially inspired by our identification of a relatively neglected topic: scholarly research has focussed on the many ways in which...

Enhancing participatory research skills and partnerships

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Between April and July 2022 LAHRI conducted the project ‘Enhancing participatory research skills and partnerships’ with support from Research England. The overall aim of the project was to enhance and extend participatory research skills and partnerships with a focus on the arts and humanities. The project had three strands with a research team with distinct...

Norah Smallwood and her correspondence (Brotherton Library Blog)

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This month's blog comes from Dr Elizabeth West, ECR Fellow, Centre for Book Publishing and Culture, University of Reading and University of Leeds Brotherton Fellow (spring 2022) In spring 2022 I carried out research in the University of Leeds Special Collections, with the generous support of the Brotherton Short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. My focus was...

The ‘Mystery’ of Mary Marsden’s Billhead (Blog from our Bedford Fellow)

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Dr Hillary Taylor, Lecturer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and currently our Bedford Fellow, writes: Billheads were used as receipts and as an advertising method. The Bedford Collection contains over a thousand examples of them from the furniture trades. They served similar functions to trade cards — a precursor of modern business cards — and began to be...

Introducing the Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour

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Situated in the School of Design, The Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC) is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary international research institute co-founded in 2021 by The Clothworkers’ Company and the University of Leeds. LITAC is building on a unique heritage of nearly 150 years of teaching and research in colour and textiles. As a collaborative...