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Katherine Tiller, Irene Manton Archive Project Archivist, writes:

The Irene Manton Building is a familiar landmark on the University of Leeds campus, but not everyone may know about the scientist behind its name. Irene Manton (1904-1988) was a pioneering botanist and electron microscopist. She spent much of her career at Leeds, where she worked as Professor of Botan...


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Colleagues from across the University recently attended the IIIF Showcase and Conference 2026 in the Netherlands, joining museum, library, archive and technology professionals from around the world to explore the latest developments in IIIF. The programme included the IIIF Showcase in Amsterdam, conference sessions in Leiden, and concluded with a final day of workshops an...


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In our final Open Lunch event of the academic year, we heard from Sorrel Harriet, Research Software Engineer Consulting Lead at ARC Leeds, who used the session to make the case for embedding p...


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The University of Leeds Libraries is delighted to announce the publication of International Human Rights Law, a new open textbook bringing together the expertise of academics from the University of Leeds School of Law. It was edite...


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