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Archive for February 2025: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/page/2/
You are browsing the site archives by date. Russell Lee coal mining exhibits Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 From the US National archives historic photographs of working lives in the USA.
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Alumna takes presenter role on BBC current affairs programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/alumna-takes-presenter-role-on-bbc-current-affairs-programme
A Leicester geography graduate is to helm the BBC’s Inside Out East Midlands current affairs programme. Lukwesa Burak presented her first edition of the programme on Monday 5 September, which was a Brexit special focusing on the impact on the East Midlands.
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Alumnuss new book envisions safe cities of the future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/alumnuss-new-book-envisions-safe-cities-of-the-future
Big data, technology and greenery working together can help bring about a safer future in cities, according to a new book co-authored by a Leicester graduate.
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September Book Group: Labels – The University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/09/28/september-book-group-labels/
Evelyn Waugh Book Group write up on Waugh's 1930 travel book, Labels.
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New book explores innovative crime fiction by Caribbean writers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/crime-fiction
Dr Lucy Evan's new book, Crime Fiction in the Caribbean will be published on 24th October 2024.
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Aerial monitors explore reed die-back condition around lakes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/aerial-monitors-explore-reed-die-back-condition
An international team led by Professor Heiko Baltzer from the Department of Geography has developed a way to increase our understanding of the die-back of reeds throughout Europe - including popular tourist areas - through satellite and aircraft monitoring systems.
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New book breaks barrier between students and modern research in mathematics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/29-garrett-book
In recent years mathematicians, armed with global internet (which simplifies collaboration), and powerful computers (used for numerical simulations, hypothesis testing, routine algebraic manipulations, etc.
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Political journalism expert explains miners’ strike significance on BBC show
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/miners-strike
A 35-year career in political journalism led to a University of Leicester academic being called on to explain the significance of the 1984-5 miners’ strike to BBC radio listeners.
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Diabetes Professors back Jamie Oliver sugar campaign
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/diabetes-professors-back-jamie-oliver-sugar-campaign
Two of the country’s leading researchers into Type 2 diabetes have come out in support of Jamie Oliver’s latest health campaign, saying “it’s time to tackle the sugar generation”.
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New project to save sole surviving population of rare wildflower
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-project-to-save-sole-surviving-population-of-rare-wildflower
A new conservation project at the Botanic Garden hopes to save a rare wildflower that is almost extinct throughout Leicestershire and Rutland - and has a declining population nationwide.