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• Andrew Dunn: Page 16

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/16/

  Academic Librarian.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/16/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• The schoolboy sketches of John Leech

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...

• 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.

• Collections development strategy (Archives and Special Collections)

  https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/special-collections-strategy

  Introduction The University Library’s Archives and Special Collections contains archives, manuscripts and rare books owned by or loaned to the University of Leicester.

• Breakthrough genetic study points to neurological mechanisms for chronic cough

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/chronic-cough-genetic-leicester

  A new genetic study by scientists at the University of Leicester has identified neurological mechanisms as key drivers of chronic cough

• Study raises important questions about lockdown effects on BAME communities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/lockdown-effects-on-bame-communities

  New research by University of Leicester academics reveals lockdown measures imposed in late March, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, may not have been as effective in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities with data showing that cases in these...

• Health study with 11,000 participants celebrates 10 year anniversary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/exceed

  A major health study led by the University of Leicester has recruited a staggering 11,000 patients across the city and county since it began 10 years ago.

• Sue Townsend’s Fan Mail

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/01/24/sue-townsends-fan-mail/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on January 24, 2019   Guest Post from Helen Ward, Library Assistant in Archives and Special Collections.

• ‘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 .