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• Universal Children’s Day

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/11/22/universal-childrens-day/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2019 Universal Children’s day  20 th November was also universal children’s day.

• Leicester expert’s tale of ancient library makes The Telegraph’s greatest books of 2025 list

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/leicester-expert-tale-ancient-library-telegraph-greatest-books-2025-list

  A University of Leicester expert’s book explaining how ancient Mesopotamian knowledge shaped the roots of modern civilisation has been named as one of the Telegraph’s greatest books of 2025.

• Expert opinions cover stolen treasure sugar refugees the EU and market crashes

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/expert-opinions-cover-stolen-treasure-sugar-refugees-and-the-eu

  Professor Martin Parker from the School of Management has written an article for The Conversation discussing the origin of the national institute, the Bank of England.

• Where is the Love in engineering

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/where-is-the-love-in-engineering

  The UK is predicting a ‘skills gap’ of approximately half a million engineers by 2022, mainly due to retirements, according to Professor Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng, head of our Department of Engineering.

• Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/

  Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...

• University will be singing the Blues at victory parade

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-shows-support-for-leicester-on-victory-parade

  When the final whistle blows at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, it will mark the end of a momentous journey for Leicester City Football Club - the team that ended last season on the cusp of relegation and will finish this season's final match as Premier League champions.

• Chilcot How the Iraq war has led to a rise in extremism and fatally undermined the European Union

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/chilcot-how-the-iraq-war-has-led-to-a-rise-in-extremism-and-2018fatally-undermined2019-the-european-union

  The Iraq war still scars us today, leading to a rise in extremism and ‘fatally undermining’ the European Union, according to Dr Robert Dover (pictured) from the Department of Politics and International Relations.

• The tin of soup: a symbol of household food insecurity?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/tin-of-soup

  Read the article "The tin of soup: a symbol of household food insecurity?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• Occupy Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/11/occupy-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 Another site archiving protest materials.  This one http://occupyarchive.

• Breakthrough research to diagnose children with asthma

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/breakthrough-research-to-diagnose-children-with-asthma

  A number of studies to better understand asthma – including how to diagnose and monitor the condition in children – will be conducted by Leicester researchers.