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• Arms

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/27/arms/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2014  Small Arms Data Observatory (SADO) launched A new website launched by an international consortium of researchers which will focus upon quantitative data .

• Hollywood star and music hitmaker join forces to launch University of Leicester’s £100m philanthropic campaign

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/hollywood-star-music-hitmaker-university-leicester-philanthropic-campaign

  Stars of Hollywood and popular music have backed a major philanthropy campaign from the University of Leicester.

• Olympics poet honoured with award from the University of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/lemn-sissay

  The official poet for the London 2012 Olympic Games has been recognised with an honorary degree from the University of Leicester.

• University of Leicester staff blog School of English BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Joe Or

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/26/bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on June 26, 2014 The BBC’s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

• Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells

  A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.

• Lesbian Herstory Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/07/13/lesbian-herstory-archives/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2021 Lesbian Herstory Archives: https://lesbianherstoryarchives.org/ “The Lesbian Herstory Archives exists to gather, preserve and provide access to records of Lesbian lives and activities.

• Peace

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/02/peace/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2012 The Peace Accords Matrix from the  Kroc Institute of International peace studies. http://peaceaccords.nd.

• 22,000 children aged 10 and 11 are obese

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/06/01/22000-children-aged-10-and-11-are-obese/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2018 …according to the latest report from the Local Government Association. The House of Commons also released the report: House of Commons Health Committee Childhood obesity: Time for action.

• Research shows national parliaments in the UK and the Netherlands host highest number of MPs of immigrant origin

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/research-shows-national-parliaments-in-the-uk-and-the-netherlands-host-highest-number-of-mps-of-immigrant-origin

  Key research findings about the political representation of citizens of immigrant origin (IO) in European national parliaments have been announced at an event in central London on Monday 15 February.

• Leicesters everevolving literary festival receives important Arts Council grant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicesters-ever-evolving-literary-festival-receives-important-arts-council-grant

  Literary Leicester, a leading festival of the written and spoken word organised by our University, opens in Leicester next month (November), with a glittering line-up of events that are free and open to the public.