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Transgender Day of Remembrance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/11/15/transgender-day-of-remembrance/
Posted by Emma Parker in School of English Blog on November 15, 2013 20 November marks Transgender Day of Remembrance.
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Keep Calm and Scroll On!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/03/27/keep-calm-and-scroll-on/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on March 27, 2020 Hello from our homes! Ian, our Library Assistant will be ready to greet new users when we reopen! We had to bid a sad farewell to our archive store and reading room last week, as...
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Extraordinary Roman mosaic and villa discovered beneath farmer's field in Rutland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/rutland-mosaic
John Thomas, Deputy Director of ULAS and project manager on the excavations, said: “This is certainly the most exciting Roman mosaic discovery in the UK in the last Century.
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Alice Munro, Canadian ‘Master’ of the Short Story
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/11/01/alice-munro-canadian/
Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature, 2013
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We should be paying more Tax, Not Less!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/12/03/we-should-be-paying-more-tax-not-less/
Posted by Richard Courtney in School of Business Blog on December 3, 2014 On the day of 2014’s Autumn Statement, Richard Courtney , Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, opposes the ideology of minimum taxation I used to get excited by budget statements.
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A first for Leicester for environmental impact
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/a-first-for-leicester-for-environmental-impact
Leicester has increased its position in a league table of UK universities’ environmental and ethical performance, for the first time achieving a ‘First Class’ rating.
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Leicester researchers discover Charles Dickens artists lost sketches in school textbook
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/leicester-researchers-discover-charles-dickens-artists-secret-sketches-in-school-textbook
Schoolboy doodles by the Victorian artist John Leech, who first illustrated Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol', have been discovered by researchers from our University and will be on display in the David Wilson Library until 31 July.
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Celebrating Austerity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/07/15/celebrating-austerity/
Posted by Daniela Rudloff in School of Business Blog on July 15, 2015 Iain Duncan Smith MP was in uncharacteristically exuberant mood during last week’s Budget speech. Daniela Rudloff , Lecturer at the School and Director of Undergraduate Studies, was not.
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The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter
The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...
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Star Flaws the Skywalker twins drift apart
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/the-skywalker-twins-drift-apart
In the original Star Wars trilogy, one of the big revelations is that main characters Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia are actually twins separated at birth.