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  • Trump’s inauguration

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 On inauguration day The Guardian news is experimenting with a number of live news features. See the first filmed inauguration in 1901 via the Library of Congress website.

  • Celebrating Leicester’s Citizens of Change on National Graduates Day

    The University of Leicester is marking National Graduates Day to celebrate the resilience and achievements of graduates from the class of 2020 180 students from the University’s School of Medicine graduated early this year to join the NHS as part of a national effort against...

  • University Vice-Chancellor honoured to switch on Leicester’s Diwali lights

    The University of Leicester’s Vice-Chancellor will be lighting up Leicester’s world-famous Diwali celebrations.

  • The UK’s humanitarian aid cuts

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 There have been proposed cuts to the UK aid budget. For some background and reactions to the proposed cuts see these useful resources: The 0.

  • Centenary tree planting helps Borough’s competition chances to bloom

    Dr Richard Gornall, Director of the Botanic Garden & Curator of the Herbarium at the University of Leicester, said: “We are thankful to the borough of Wigston and Oadby for its donation to the garden which marks the centenary of the University of Leicester.

  • Leicester historian’s ‘elegant pages’ that provided the script for last coronation

    Details of University of Leicester historian’s contribution to the design and printing of the Order of Service for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II unearthed

  • Mapping the future of University of Leicester’s iconic Engineering Building

    Stirling and Gowan-designed building among ten new grants from Getty Foundation’s 2018 Keeping It Modern programme

  • International Women’s Day: some free statistics which show why it is necessary

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2020 Here are some free statistics which show why the fight for gender equality is necessary: The Office for National Statistics  records the current gender pay gap as 17.3% in 2019.

  • Professor Alex Mitchell cited as one of ‘the world’s most influential scientific minds’

    Professor Alex Mitchell, Honorary Professor of Psycho-oncology and Liaison Psychiatry, has been cited in a list of ‘the world’s most influential scientific minds’ by the influential Web of Science Group.

  • New research uncovers secrets of space’s mysterious black holes

    X-ray: NASA/CXO/CSIC-INTA/G.Miniutti et al.; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss;|Scientists have uncovered clues into the reasons why mysterious black holes grow in size, after discovering an amazing struggle between a star and a black hole 250,000 light years away.

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