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River monster
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/spinosaurus
An extraordinary discovery by a team of palaeontologists, including Dr David Unwin, published in Nature, rewrites our understanding of how dinosaurs lived.
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Gigantic Jurassic pterosaur fossil unearthed in Oxfordshire
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/gigantic-pterosaur
University of Leicester researcher involved in study of one of the largest pterosaurs of the Jurassic era
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Local Politics in Leicester During the 1890s
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/29/local-politics-in-leicester-during-the-1890s/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 29, 2015 ‘The Wyvern Smiles’ from ‘The Wyvern’, (Leicester, 20 November 1891).
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Happy International Archives Day 2018!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/happy-international-archives-day-2018/
Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2018 The University records manager, David Jenkins, and I (Vicky Holmes, University Archivist) thought we’d take the opportunity to flag up IAD18 and explain a bit about what we do all day! On the 9th of...
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Frost Fairs on the Thames
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/12/01/frost-fairs-on-the-thames/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 1, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Francesco Bartolozzi. From the Fairclough Collection, EP 36, Box 7, p. 590.
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‘A photographic revolutionary’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/11/21/a-photographic-revolutionary/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 21, 2014 ‘The Snow Garden’, P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson, ‘Marsh Leaves’, (London, 1895), pl. XII, SCM 08575. University of Leicester Special Collections.
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Poll Books in Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.
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Mapping vanished Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/06/mapping-vanished-leicester/
More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.
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How reading increases your life expectancy by 26 years!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/how-reading-increases-your-life-expectancy-by-26-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 World Book day was celebrated on Thursday What are the benefits of reading? The Reading Agency quotes a number of studies on economic, health and well-being and educational impacts...
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Are corporate crimes serious?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/are-corporate-crimes-serious/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 Yes according to a new report Redefining criminality published by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies which considers public attitudes to corporate and individual offending.