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• Leicester Museums Service Recordings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/03/21/leicester-museums-service-recordings/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on March 21, 2023 The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and The University of Leicester Special Collections have launched a new project, ‘Sounds for the Future’.

• Dr Prashant Kidambi's cricket book makes 'Best of Year' list

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-cricket-book

  Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History, has made it into the Financial Times Sports Books of the Year list with his book Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire which tells the story of the first ‘All-India’ cricket team to go...

• 2023 Festival of Social Science returns to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/foss

  The University of Leicester will host a series of events as part of the UK’s biggest celebration of social science research.

• Space Worms! UK scientists launch microscopic crew into orbit to support future Moon missions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/april/space-worms-launch-microscopic-moon-missions

  A ‘Petri Pod’ designed and built at Space Park Leicester and launched last weekend will allow scientists on Earth led from the University of Exeter to study worms in space

• Leicester scientists describe astronomical phenomenon never witnessed before

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-scientists-describe-2018astronomical-phenomenon-never-witnessed-before2019

  Researchers from our University have contributed to a simultaneous global announcement -  in London, Washington DC, and Munich  -  of the discovery and results from the joint detection of gravitational waves and light from the collision of a pair of mutually...

• Greater empathy reduces problems with patient care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/howick

  Greater levels of compassion from hospital and clinical staff can reduce persistent problems with patient care says a University expert in empathy

• University of Leicester honours the President of Malta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/22-president-malta-receives-honorary-degree-doctor-laws

  Her Excellency Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, the President of the Republic of Malta, has been made an honorary graduate by the University of Leicester. The University bestowed the honorary degree at its graduation ceremony on Friday 18 January 2019 at De Montfort Hall in Leicester.

• Richard Float

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/richard-float

  We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Richard Float, who worked in the Estates Division for more than thirty years, as Assistant Bursar and then Bursar. Richard passed away on 7 October 2024, aged 91.

• Coventry Archives

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/11/22/coventry-archives-2/

  A description of the collections from Coventry Archives that have been digitised by the UOSH project.

• Ian Bradley

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/ian-bradley

  It is with great regret that we have learned of the death of Ian Bradley, a member of the Economics Department for 40 years. Martin Hoskins with help from Deborah, Derek Deadman and Peter Jackson has written the tribute below.