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It’s that time of year. Where exams and assessments are imminent, and you’ve basically moved into the library for your revision sessions. Fortunately for you, we’ve asked some of our 2025 – 2026 Academic Writing Mentors for their top tips to help you through this busy period.  

My tip would be to...


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Frances Varley, LAHRI Bedford Fellow, writes:

Trade cards are often encountered online as individual items: a single catalogue record in a collection hierarchy that describes an individual object. While engaging with trade cards in such a way is illuminating for historians of art, material culture, and trade, seeing them gathered together can ask different questions...


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Jane Saunders, the University Library’s Associate Director for Content and Discovery, chaired our Open Lunch event looking at the PCI (Peer Community In) process and how peer...


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Cultural Collections & Galleries LGBTQ+ Project Intern, Leyao Ling, is working to uncover and celebrate LGBTQ+ histories within the University’s archives. Leyao’s research spans a wide range of material in our collections, from exploring lived experiences on the front line during the First World War, to examining intersectionality in activist movements of the 1970s, ...


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Karen Sayers, Archivist, writes:

I have recently been cataloguing the archive of the Yorkshire food historian Laura Mason.

Born in Ilkley in 1957, Mason became a well-known historian of British food with a particular interest in confectionery and English Country cooking. She was an accomplished cook and author. She published many books, several in conjunct...


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