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• Digitising the Coventry Archives oral history collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/coventry-archives/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 by Richard Wheelband, UOSH Midlands Digitisation Engineer   The Unlocking Our Digital Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub is based in Special Collections at the University of Leicester and is preserving ‘at...

• New study provides insights into complexities of gender at work

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-suggests-male-workers-in-typically-female-jobs-are-not-motivated-by-money

  Men in typically female-dominated occupations tend to value the social aspects of their career over financial rewards, the findings of a study by Dr Catherine Steele from the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour and a team at the University of...

• Suggested reading

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/suggested-reading

  Read Renfrew and Bahn: Archaeology: theories, methods and practice Alcock and Osborne: Classical Archaeology Watch Archaeology at the BBC - A collection of programmes charting the BBC's first ventures into archaeology programming.

• 800000 project investigates the human cost of war

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/ps800-000-project-investigates-the-human-cost-of-war

  The human cost of civil wars is to be investigated in a four-year project entitled 'Welfare, Conflict and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars,1642-1700’ funded by a major grant of over £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

• Study reveals how thirsty trees pull water to their canopies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-reveals-how-thirsty-trees-pull-water-to-their-canopies

  A scientific mystery about how trees pull water from the ground to their top branches has been solved by an international team of researchers led by Dr Adrian Boatwright, who conducted the research while at the Department of Chemistry.

• First cohort studying Apollo-Leicester university course find out more about life and learning in the UK

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/first-cohort-studying-apollo-leicester-university-uk

  The first cohort of students in India on a degree which will see them split their studies between the University of Leicester and the subcontinent have been given a taste of studying and living in the UK.

• Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/viking-jewellery-mythology-silver-bronze

  Senior author Dr Christina Tsoraki, of the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester adds, "By studying the wear of the 'valkyrie' pendants -- the valkyries being female mythological beings that would bring slain warriors from the battlefield to...

• Andrew Dunn: Page 120

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/120/

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• Andrew Dunn: Page 158

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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/159/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester