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• Leicester scientist features in Canadian-British documentary providing new insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-scientist-features-in-canadian-british-documentary-providing-new-insights-into-life-and-death-of-jumbo-the-elephant

  New insights into the life and mysterious death of Jumbo the elephant – a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the film ‘Dumbo’ – will be revealed in an international documentary featuring Dr Richard Thomas (pictured) from our School of...

• Unique opportunity to learn about regeneration of Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/unique-opportunity-to-learn-about-regeneration-of-leicester

  Local universities will be offering a unique opportunity to learn about various aspects of the regeneration of Leicester from key people involved in the city's recent transformation on Friday 30 June and Saturday 1 July.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/73/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• The Weakest Links Anne Robinson to speak at Literary Leicester event honouring the life of revered editor Alexander Chancellor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/the-weakest-link2019s-anne-robinson-to-speak-at-literary-leicester-event-honouring-the-life-of-revered-editor-alexander-chancellor

  A panel of esteemed writers and journalists will commemorate the life and work of Spectator editor Alexander Chancellor CBE on Wednesday 15 November at 4.00 pm.

• 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.

• Global registry of oil and gas reserves

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/09/30/global-registry-of-oil-and-gas-reserves/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2022 Global registry of oil and gas reserves , provides access in one place to production and emissions with data for more than 50,000 fields.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/157/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Finding Dolly Shepherd in Historical Directories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/07/finding-dolly-shepherd-in-historical-directories/

  Guest blog post on Edwardian Lady Parachutist Dolly Shepherd, by Debra Wallace

• Tempest rocket to map quality of the air we breathe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/tempest-rocket-to-map-quality-of-the-air-we-breathe

  In what is thought to be a world’s first, a rocket equipped with air pollution monitoring equipment developed by University scientists from the Department of Physics and Astronomy led by Dr Roland Leigh (pictured) is due to be launched on Wednesday 4...

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/39/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester