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• Democracy’s Library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/21/democracys-library/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 21, 2022 Internet archive is building a free, open, website of government research and publications from around the world.

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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/diwali

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

• The UK’s humanitarian aid cuts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/the-uks-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.

• Trump’s inauguration

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/trumps-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.

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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/botanic-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.

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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/03/16/international-womens-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.

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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-getty-foundation-grant

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

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

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-highly-cited

  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.

• Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from University of Leicester days

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/charity-shop-find-alumnus-long-lost-compass

  Staff at University of Leicester help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a compass with a 60-year old note

• Light exposure could hold the key to a good night’s sleep

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/fruit-fly-sleep-disorders-leicester

  Light signals processed through the eyes helps regulate sleep in fruit flies, and disrupting those visual pathways causes abnormal sleep patterns, a new study by Leicester experts shows.