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  • ‘Strangers in the land’?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/08/strangers-in-the-land/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2016 Our current exhibition, ‘”Strangers in the land”? Impressions of India’ traces the history of the British in India from the early 17 th century to the turn of the 20 th .

  • Sherry in the filing-cabinet – and as for the milk-jug …

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/13/sherry-in-the-filing-cabinet-and-as-for-the-milk-jug/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 13, 2016 Our current exhibition from the Special Collections, ‘”Strangers in the Land”? Impressions of India’, explores the attitudes and reactions of the British in India, from the early 17 th century to the...

  • Summer Holidays

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/23/happy-holidays/

    Blog post recalling Summer Holidays taken by people from Leicester and Leicestershire, as recorded in the East Midlands Oral History Archive

  • More on overtime

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/more-on-overtime/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 How much overtime do British workers do? The Office for National Statistics has  Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) .

  • Town Commemorates Convicts, by Minako Sakata

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/29/town-commemorate-convicts-by-minako-sakata/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on September 29, 2014 At the end of August, I visited Tsukigata, a small town in Hokkaido where the Kabato Central Prison was located from 1881 to 1919.

  • New blood cancer study announces outstanding results

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/outstanding-results-announce-from-new-blood-cancer-study

    Scientists have described new results of a blood cancer study as ‘outstanding’ in tackling previously untreatable forms of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).

  • Study reviews new once-weekly Type 2 diabetes drugs

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/study-reviews-new-once-weekly-type-2-diabetes-drugs

    Once-weekly glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) differ in their efficacy and safety profiles, according to new research by researchers from the Leicester Diabetes Centre. Compared to other once-weekly GLP-1RAs which are licensed and available, dulaglutide 1.

  • Easter for social scientists

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/04/17/easter-for-social-scientists/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 17, 2019 Just for fun here are some interesting research related facts on Easter chocolate! This infographic from Statista  has some basic facts on who celebrates Easter and what they do.

  • Cities

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/cities-2/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014  Cities of Opportunity   Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper.  Covers 30 major cities worldwide.

  • New study will reveal how a decade of disadvantage has affected lived experiences of hate crime

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leverhulme-hate-crime-research

    Researchers at the University of Leicester will assess how major social, political and economic changes in Britain over the last decade have impacted upon communities who have experienced hate crime.

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