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• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/201/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Cider, the golden global glug.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/10/07/cider-the-golden-global-glug/

  Posted by in Consuming Authenticities on October 7, 2015 Ethnographic research with craft cider-makers suggests that part of the authenticity of a craft cider derives from its staying true to the traditions of cider, as opposed to a “commercial cider”, a category often used...

• Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning

  Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct ‘fossil monster’ that lived half a billion years ago, filling a gap in our understanding of the evolution of arthropods such as insects...

• Mike Le Bas

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/mike-le-bas

  We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Michael John Le Bas, who was Senior Lecturer in Igneous Petrology in the Department of Geology from 1961 to 1992.

• Their Past Your Future 2

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/their-past-your-future-2

  TPYF2 aimed to encourage the sector to use their collections to increase young people’s knowledge and understanding of the impact of war.

• University’s heritage and archaeological teams to appear at Leicester’s Roman festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/leicester-old-town-festival-roman

  Students and staff from the University of Leicester will be behind a range of activities planned for Leicester’s Old Town Festival: Roman Edition.

• Charles Phythian-Adams

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Head of the Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), who passed away on 13 May 2025.

• Literary experts and historians from around the world gather in Leicester to celebrate George Eliot’s bicentenary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-george-eliot

  George Eliot George Eliot illustration|The University of Leicester will this week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 July) play host to an international conference marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist George Eliot.

• Being Disturbingly Informative. By Shane McCorristine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/10/31/disturbingly-informative/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 31, 2016   Last year I visited a fine old building nestled incongruously close to the skyscrapers and busy financial offices of Market Street in downtown Philadelphia.

• Objects and Collections: Care, Management and Curation

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mu7016

  Module code: MU7016 This module looks inside the museum (and related institutions) to consider objects and collections, and how they are made, cared for and re-made within professional practice.