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  • Ptero Firma: footprints pinpoint when ancient flying reptiles conquered the ground

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/ptero-firma-footprints-ancient-flying-reptiles

    Study led by the University of Leicester links fossilised flying reptile tracks to animals that made them, revealing a 160-million-year-old invasion as pterosaurs came down from the trees and onto the ground.

  • Humanising Space at Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/politics/events/humanising-space

    Humanising Space Seminars

  • Human Trafficking

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/human-trafficking-2/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 30th July was  World Day Against Trafficking in Persons . The official UN website provides background on the need for the day and related United Nations publications.

  • Election 2015: TV debates

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/04/20/election-2015-tv-debates/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 Democratic reflection App The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) project a collaboration between The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)  at The Open University and the University of...

  • Emoji is the fastest growing language

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode  and the launch of Emoj.li.

  • Mental Health UK

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/16/mental-health-uk/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 16, 2018 10 th October was World Mental Health Day and the first Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit has been held.   Its website has reports and decisions.

  • Gay Pride

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/gay-pride/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Celebrate gay pride – with the Gay t-shirt archive!  Wearing gay history  digitized t-shirt collections of numerous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender archives across the...

  • Discover the stories behind the sparkle in new exhibition inspired by ULAS find

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/jewellery-exhibition-ulas

    The Cossington Necklace, found by archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services, is at the centre of an exhibition from 25 January – 15 June 2025 at Charnwood Museum

  • A celebration of 100 years ago today, by Caroline Wessel

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/04/04/a-celebration-of-100-years-ago-today-by-caroline-wessel/

    Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 4, 2019 Newspaper cuttings reporting Fielding Johnson’s Gift, from Astley Clarke’s scrapbook (ULA/D2/1) On Friday 4 April 1919 Mr Thomas Fielding Johnson purchased the 36-acre site of Leicester’s 5th Northern Base...

  • Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project Data.

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/social-political-and-economic-event-database-speed-project-data/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 … comprises data on de-stabilising events such as coups, revolutions and political and economic upheaval.  Analysis has been made from a global news archive.

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