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Global Social Responses to Covid-19 Web Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/03/17/global-social-responses-to-covid-19-web-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 17, 2021 The Ivy Plus web archive is creating a record of the evolution of Covid-19’s social impact since March 2020 by preserving snapshots of key websites from areas of the global...
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New United States elections (and other political) web archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/new-united-states-elections-and-other-political-web-archives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 The Library of Congress has just released a mass of themed web archive collections.
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The World Wide Web is 30 years old
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/the-world-wide-web-is-30-years-old/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...
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Advanced Web Technologies
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co4215
Module code: CO4215
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Governance policies
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/policies
The University endeavours to conduct its affairs with integrity and openness and to the highest ethical standards.
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Webb reveals new details and mysteries in Jupiter’s aurora with Christmas lightshow
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/webb-mysteries-jupiter-aurora-christmas-lightshow
Highest time resolution images of Jupiter’s infrared ‘dancing lights’ obtained by University of Leicester-led team on Christmas Day
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James Webb Space Telescope’s coolest instrument captures first star
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-first-image
The UK’s main contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), has now opened its eye to the sky.
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Scientists to share science behind James Webb Space Telescope this half term
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/galaxies-assemble
Space scientists from the University of Leicester will demonstrate the cutting-edge science behind the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at the National Space Centre this October half term.
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Researchers use NASA’s Webb to map weather of planet 280 light-years away
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/clouds-wasp-43b
Atmospheric modelling led in part by University of Leicester reveals true extent of clouds on distant world reveals WASP-43 b is cloudy on the nightside but mostly clear on the dayside, with equatorial winds howling around the planet at 5,000 miles per hour
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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...