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A-Z of databases and electronic resources
https://le.ac.uk/library/search-collections/databases-az
Discover our range of databases, newspapers, primary sources and online resources using the A-Z links.
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Clearing was a fresh page in English student Eloise’s plans
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/clearing-fresh-page-english-student-eloise-plans
When her A Level results didn’t turn out how she’d hoped, Eloise Adams decided it was time to start a fresh page in her future plans.
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Guide Dog calendar to raise money for charity
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/guide-dog-calendar-to-raise-money-for-charity
The Students’ Union resident Guide Dog puppy, Vinnie, will be at the launch of a new Guide Dog 2016 calendar, featuring Vinnie himself and two of his puppy friends from 2pm to 4pm in Queen’s Hall Foyer on Wednesday 2 December.
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Prophesying Leicester City’s success in 1895?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/12/prophesying-leicester-citys-success-in-1895/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 12, 2016 In a previous blog post, I talked about the early days of Leicester Fosse Football Club. The Fosse, or ‘The Fossils’ as they were known to their supporters, eventually became Leicester City in 1920.
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A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.
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Revisiting Holst’s Jupiter a hundred years later
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/02-jupiter-planets-suite
Reworking of Jupiter from Holst’s Planets suite benefits from insights from a University of Leicester planetary scientist.
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S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader
https://le.ac.uk/people/s-m-ruhul-kabir-howlader
The academic profile of Mr S M Ruhul Kabir Howlader, Doctoral Researcher at University of Leicester
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Country Houses and the British Empire: How Imperialism Transformed Britain’s Colonial Countryside
https://le.ac.uk/courses/mooc-colonial-countryside/2022
Explore the fascinating histories of Britain’s colonial houses and their links to the British Empire.
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New resources on women’s suffrage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/14/new-resources-on-womens-suffrage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 14, 2018 A new teaching resource Endell Street – Women’s Military Hospital Project , focuses on the changing role of women from the 1900s to 1920, with a particular emphasis on women’s...
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BBC’s Digging for Britain to showcase Leicester Cathedral discoveries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/digging-for-britain
A University of Leicester-led archaeological dig at Leicester Cathedral is to be featured on BBC Two’s Digging for Britain.