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Comparing politicians
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/comparing-politicians/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 With the ongoing Labour Party contest you might want to compare politicians.
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Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/22/witnesses-wives-politicians-soldiers-the-women-of-waterloo/
Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 22, 2015 Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo By Katherine Astbury Associate Professor and Reader of French at University of Warwick Visit The Last Stand: Napoleon’s 100 Days in 100 Objects: www.
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Blogs and Bullets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2010/10/18/blogs-and-bullets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2010 http://www.usip.
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New research highlights impact of COVID-19 pandemic on UK pilots
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/covid-pilots
The University of Leicester’s Civil Safety and Security Unit has carried out a study highlighting the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on UK pilots.
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Leicester PhD student publishes book on traditional British ballads
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-phd-student-publishes-book-on-traditional-british-ballads
PhD student Kevan Manwaring from our School of Arts is publishing a new book based on his Creative Writing PhD research which will appeal to people passionate about folk music and storytelling.
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Penny Bloods on display in the Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/09/penny-bloods-on-display-in-the-library/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2014 Penny Bloods, popular from the 1840s to the 1860s, were so named because of their preoccupation with the gory and sensational.
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Breakthrough for firm working to protect satellites from ‘space bullets’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/space-bullet
A company based at the University of Leicester working on a pioneering system to save the space industry billions every year has successfully demonstrated the operation of its technology in orbit.
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First delivery to our University of high-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/first-delivery-to-our-university-of-high-tech-glass-plates-to-be-used-to-discover-the-birth-of-new-black-holes
Our University is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite ‘SVOM’ which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts from newly formed black holes.
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Never mind the ballots
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/02/never-mind-the-ballots/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2017 BFI Player’s fascinating collection of election films from the early 20 th century to the 1970s They range from the funny Clangers voting cartoon from 1974 (ask your candidate in 2017 –...
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National politicians discover astronomical potential of Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/11-astronomical-potential-of-space-park-leicester
Staff presented the Leicester project for space and space-enabled industries at the Labour and Conservative party conferences