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• Leicester scientists in discovery of new type of plant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/leicester-scientists-in-discovery-of-new-type-of-plant

  Dr James Higgins from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology has been involved in the discovery of a new type of plant growing in Shetland. Scientists at the University of Stirling discovered the plant – with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.

• Relaunched (with expanded content): Associated Press Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/relaunched-with-expanded-content-associated-press-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://www.aparchive.com/ AP Archive is the film and video archive of the Associated Press The collection includes over 1.

• The Ripple: An Archival Retrospective

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/08/08/the-ripple-an-archival-retrospective/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on August 8, 2025 Guest post written by Carter Buckingham who has been volunteering in Special Collections since August 2024.

• University of Leicester staff blogs School of English ‘Untouchable’ works to be investigated at Univ

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/16/untouchable-works-to-be-investigated-at-university-of-leicester-event/

  School of English Centre for New Writing Untouchable Dalit Literature

• Frederick and Mary Attenborough

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/frederick-and-mary

  Frederick was our second Principal and under his leadership it expanded rapidly. He, and his wife Mary, lived on the campus with their sons Richard, David and John.

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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/91/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Research to save the most valuable silk moth in the world

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/research-to-2018save-the-most-valuable-silk-moth-in-the-world2019

  Research that could help to save one of the rarest and most valuable silks in the world is being spearheaded by a team that is developing a technique known as phage therapeutics to target harmful bacterial infections in Muga silkworms in order to protect them...

• Holocaust Memorial day 2018: power of words

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/holocaust-memorial-day-2018-power-of-words/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 27th January marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp.

• Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/cabinet-of-curiosities

  A unique performance that challenges the way we think about disability.

• Japanese Princess attends graduation ceremony

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/japanese-princess-to-attend-graduation-ceremony

  Our University is delighted to announce that Princess Mako of Akishino is returning to Leicester in order to be awarded her postgraduate degree in Museum Studies.