Classes at the Leicester School of Art started on 1st March 1870 – 149 years ago!
Have you ever wondered how the School of Art became De Montfort University? This chart should help:
Special Collections recently launched an appeal for former staff and students to get in touch with their memories or archive collections ahead of the landmark 150th anniversary next year. We’ve had some wonderful memories:
“The Fletcher Building, Floor 9. Scary paternoster. Always misbehaving and stranding folk in the basement. Or up above the ceiling. You’d hear them calling for help. See just their lower legs or upturned faces. Nah. Nothing doing till the janitor got there.”
(Memory of a student of History of Art, 1985)
We’ve also had a range of items donated to the archive collections, including gig tickets:
