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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.

• LGBT History Digital Collaboratory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/28/lgbt-history-digital-collaboratory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 28, 2015 Exciting project based at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA), the Transgender Archives...

• Company, Commercial and Financial Law

  https://le.ac.uk/law/research/research-themes/company-commercial-and-financial-law

  Leicester Law School provides aspects of commercial, corporate and financial law accommodating diverse research interests. Take a look at the information we have to offer.

• Humanising Space at Leicester

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

  Humanising Space Seminars

• Leicester-led study to explore mental health and drug use in colonial and post-colonial prisons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-study-mental-health-drug-prisons

  The University of Leicester has been awarded £3.3m to research drugs and mental health in prison settings globally.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.