Today is the first of eight consecutive days of industrial action by members of the UCU – the University and College Union. I am participating. What is the strike about? We are university staff and members of the University and College Union (UCU) and we are taking strike action over falling pay, the gender and…
Category: Campaigns
Back to Goddard: a pop-up exhibition at 31 Granby Street
The architect Joseph Goddard (1840-1900), designed many of Leicester’s Victorian landmarks, including the Clock Tower (incidentally celebrating it’s 150th anniversary this year), but arguably his masterpiece was the Gothic-revival Midland Bank (latterly HSBC and originally built on behalf of the Leicestershire Bank) on Granby Street; a Grade II* listed building constructed between 1872-74. The building…
Save Garden Street Island!
A quick post in the eye of the storm between lectures and seminars (more about that later), to urge my readers (assuming I have any readers!) to consider signing this petition calling for the preservation of Garden Street Island, which is currently under threat of demolition for the second time in three years. Garden Street…