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• My internship with Academic Liaison and Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/17/my-internship-with-academic-liaison-and-special-collections/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 17, 2016 By James Wilkinson After one of my friend’s mentioned a potential career path in librarianship, and that she was in the middle of undertaking a librarianship internship here at the University of...

• 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.

• Feminism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/03/feminism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2014 The Fawcett Society launch new blog: Feminist Matters It will cover a range of topics from a feminist perspective.

• Humanising Space at Leicester

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

  Humanising Space Seminars

• 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...

• 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

• 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.

• 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...

• 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.