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• British Planetary Science Conference 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/01/30/british-planetary-science-conference-2020/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 January 2020 Academic staff and students presented a wide range of work at the 2nd British Planetary Science Conference The 2nd British Planetary Science Conference was held from the 13th-15th of January at...

• Study finds high blood sugar levels could lead to heart attack complications

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-finds-high-blood-sugar-levels-could-lead-to-heart-attack-complications

  A team led by Dr Richard Rainbow from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences has demonstrated for the first time the mechanism by which the level of sugar in your blood can affect the contraction of blood vessels, with potentially dangerous effects on the heart and...

• Leicester astronomer leads study of observations of Jupiter in the far-infrared

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-astronomer-leads-study-of-observations-of-jupiter

  Dr Leigh Fletcher from our Department of Physics and Astronomy has lead a team that has produced far-infrared maps of Jupiter for the first time since the twin Voyager spacecraft missions in 1979 using NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA.

• Refugees tell their stories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/02/12/refugees-tell-their-stories/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on February 12, 2014 Undergraduate students from the School of English are helping twelve refugees from across the world express their personal tales of struggle and hardship by helping them publish a book of their creative...

• Local Politics in Leicester During the 1890s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/29/local-politics-in-leicester-during-the-1890s/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 29, 2015 ‘The Wyvern Smiles’ from ‘The Wyvern’, (Leicester, 20 November 1891).

• A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.

• Who owned the Wicked Bible?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/23/who-owned-the-wicked-bible/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 23, 2015 It’s been reported in the news this week  that a copy of the so called “Wicked Bible” is to be auctioned at Bonhams in November.

• Margaret Maclean: Page 3

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/author/mm219/page/3/

  Library Assistant, Rare Books and Archives in the University Library

• ‘A photographic revolutionary’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/11/21/a-photographic-revolutionary/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 21, 2014 ‘The Snow Garden’, P. H. (Peter Henry) Emerson, ‘Marsh Leaves’, (London, 1895), pl. XII, SCM 08575. University of Leicester Special Collections.

• Discovering Collections Discovering Communities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/15/discovering-collections-discovering-communities/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 15, 2015 This week I attended the Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference in the impressive Lowry Centre at Salford Quays.