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  • University supporting literacy skills through reading buddies and new books for schools

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/books

    Volunteers from the University of Leicester have donated boxes full of brand-new books to local primary schools. It is part of a wider scheme that sees one hundred school-based volunteers support pupils at Uplands Junior L.E.A.

  • New theory claims pterodactyls did not have feathers

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/pterosaurs

    The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper from the University of Leicester refuting claims that feathers were found on dinosaurs’ close relative, the flying reptiles called pterosaurs.

  • 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.

  • Learning Outcomes Project: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/page/2/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Pioneering Satellite Applications Catapult establishes Leicester base

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/catapult

    A unique government-backed technology and innovation company has further demonstrated its commitment to supporting and accelerating the growth of the space industry in the UK with its expansion into Space Park Leicester.

  • Leicester PhD graduates debut novel among most anticipated books of 2017

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-phd-graduate2019s-debut-novel-among-most-anticipated-books-of-2017

    Leicester PhD graduate Dr Sabyn Javeri’s debut novel, Nobody Killed Her, has been included as one of the Huffington Post India’s most anticipated books of 2017.

  • Sir Maurice Shock LLD 19262018

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/sir-maurice-shock-lld-1926-2018

    Sir Maurice, who was also an honorary graduate of the University, was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List in 1988 in recognition of his services to Leicester and the wider academic community.

  • Protesting against the Vietnam War in October 1965

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/05/protesting-against-the-vietnam-war-in-october-1965/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on October 5, 2015 Fifty years ago, in October 1965, mass demonstrations against the Vietnam War took place in the US and pacifist David J.

  • Alexander Waugh at the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society – The University of Leicester

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/10/29/alexander-waugh-at-the-leicester-lit-and-phil/

    Alexander Waugh gave a talk on Combe Florey House to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society

  • Leicester academic curates major art exhibition in Rome

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-academic-curates-major-art-exhibition-in-rome

    A University of Leicester academic has curated a major art exhibition currently being shown at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome. Professor David Ekserdjian, from the University of Leicester’s Department of History of Art and Film, curated “Correggio e Parmigianino.

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