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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/51/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Archive for November 2024: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/page/2/
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Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid
A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.
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Garth Smithies Taylor (1896-1916)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/
15 October 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Garth Smithies Taylor, a name which many staff and students at the University will have unwittingly passed on numerous occasions when entering the Fielding Johnson Building.
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An interview with Nora Waddington
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/19/an-interview-with-nora-waddington/
Posted by rwatson in Library Special Collections on December 19, 2016 During the 1980s an oral history project was undertaken by the Leicester Oral history Archive. These interviews are now held by the East Midlands Oral History Archives at the University of Leicester.
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Case Study - Team Factors
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/executive-education-programmes/help-to-grow-management-programme/case-study---team-factors
Introduction Team Factors Ltd, based in Hertfordshire, were established in 2010 and provide start-ups, micro companies and SMEs with flexible factoring solutions enabling businesses to receive payment of up to 90% of the value of their invoices immediately.
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A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.
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The Dreadful Burning of the City of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/08/the-dreadful-burning-of-the-city-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016 The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events...
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Queer Heritage and Collections Network awarded Arts Council England and National Lottery Project Funding
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/queer-heritage
Read more about the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries' latest project on queer heritage
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Study to help find ways to prevent kidney damage
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/study-to-help-find-ways-to-prevent-kidney-damage
Leicestershire people set to undergo keyhole vascular surgery are being recruited for a new study to help find ways to prevent kidney damage which can sometimes occur afterwards.