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Dartmoor dig uncovers 'stunning' Early Bronze Age burial cist
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/dartmoor-cist
University of Leicester's Dr Laura Basell is working with Dartmoor National Park to analyse a newly discovered Bronze Age cist.
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New film on forced marriages and people with learning disabilities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/new-film-on-forced-marriages-and-people-with-learning-disabilities
A documentary about what forced marriage means for adults with learning disabilities has been made involving expertise from Leicester.
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Britain’s relationship with the EU on film
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/24/britains-relationship-with-the-eu-on-film/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2016 British Pathe films on Britain’s relationship with the EU including negotiations to join the Common Market.
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Wednesday 14th Nov 2012 Sol 98
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2012/11/14/14th-nov-2012-sol-98/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 14, 2012 With its APXS (Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer) instrument on the robotic arm of Curiosity is measuring the composition of rocks and soil at Rocknest.
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Leicester screens Film about 7-year-old who saved the lives of 15 people
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/30-leicester-screens-film-7-year-old-saved-15-people
Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival logo 2297|Oksijan is being screened as part of the 5th annual Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival The University of Leicester will host the Leicester screening of Oksijan, a short film by writer and director Edward...
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‘Closing the Gender Pay gap would take 95 years’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/02/24/closing-the-gender-pay-gap-would-take-95-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 24, 2017 Across OECD nations at current rates of progress according to the latest PWC Women in work report.
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Santa’s sleigh flies with the power of the Apollo mission rocket
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/santa-sleigh-engine
Santa’s sleigh would require equivalent thrust to that produced by the Saturn V rocket or 150 Boeing 747-400 engines, University of Leicester students have found.
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Impossible Desires: the Novels and Films of Shamim Sarif
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/06/25/impossible-desires-the-novels-and-films-of-shamim-sarif/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on June 25, 2015 As part of my Queer Diasporas project, I’ve been researching the work of the still not too widely known British novelist and filmmaker Shamim Sarif, whose existence I’ve been...
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6th August 2013 Sol 356
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2013/08/06/6th-august-2013-sol-356/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on August 6, 2013 First Birthday gateaux at CNES, Toulouse.
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Norwich Women’s Film Weekend: online archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/01/27/norwich-womens-film-weekend-online-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 27, 2023 The Norwich Women’s Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event created by Cinewomen that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich.