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1 million visits to UK Food Banks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/27/1-million-visits-to-uk-food-banks/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2015 Trussell Trust has just released the shocking figures that in the last year more than 1 million allocations of food were made by the charity.
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New ways of using the Historical Directories collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/27/new-ways-of-using-the-historical-directories-collection/
Posted by William Farrell in Library and Learning Services on June 27, 2023 Over the last 18 months, we have been collaborating with a research project called the Congruence Engine .
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New European collaborative platform to combat neurodegenerative diseases
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/epnd
Members of the European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) have today (Tuesday) announced that they will embark on a venture to establish a collaborative platform for efficient sample and data sharing, leveraging and linking existing European research...
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First-ever University Challenge champs aim to bring trophy back to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/university-challenge
A team of University of Leicester students will be bidding to bring the BBC University Challenge trophy back to the East Midlands for the first time since 1963.
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MA Museum Studies Placement Week 5-6
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/26/ma-museum-studies-placement-week-5-6/
Posted by can19 in Library Special Collections on August 26, 2022 A page by page outline with original drawings for ‘Numbers’ Simple Maths series by Rose Griffiths. I have now completed another two weeks of the placement it is crazy to think how quickly this has gone.
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The Ancient Harbours of Ierapetra
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/big-antiquity/harbours-ierapetra
A collaborative archaeological research project studying the ancient Greek and Roman harbours of Ierapetra, eastern Crete, and their coastal environment.
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Introducing Leicester’s Juno Team, University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/16/introducing-leicesters-juno-team/
Introduction to the University of Leicester's Jupiter scientists.
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Tequila: Pulque’s Friend, Cousin, Usurper?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/01/tequila-pulques-friend-cousin-usurper/
Deborah Toner discusses the relationship and rivalry between pulque and tequila in Mexican history, and summarises a recently published book by Marie Sarita Gaytan, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2014)
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Dickens codebreakers recognised at Higher Education ‘Oscars’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/the-awards-2022
The Dickens Code project, led by the University of Leicester in collaboration with the University of Foggia, takes home a Times Higher Education Award.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/11/15/transgender-day-of-remembrance/
Posted by Emma Parker in School of English Blog on November 15, 2013 20 November marks Transgender Day of Remembrance.