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University historian drives successful campaign for Leicestershire flag
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/leicestershire-flag
Professor Shipley formed the idea of establishing a flag for Leicestershire in 2014, when he noticed that around half of England’s 39 historic counties had adopted flags in the previous decade or so, and that soon Leicestershire would be one of the few without one.
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Leicester students win out of this world competition for satellite ideas
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/satellife
A team of students from Leicester has won thousands of pounds in a competition run by the UK Space Agency calling for innovative ideas on how satellites can improve life on Earth.
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Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/15/reconsidering-southern-african-studies-from-the-indian-ocean/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 15, 2014 “Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean.” This challenge underpinned two wonderful days of discussion at the University of the Western Cape last week.
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Juno’s first observations of Jupiter are revealing a giant world that is defying our expectations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/05/26/junos-first-observations-of-jupiter-are-revealing-a-giant-world-that-is-defying-our-expectations/
University of Leicester, Staff Blogs
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Dismemberment in Victorian London: The Thames Torso Murders. By Shane McCorristine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/31/thames-torso-murders/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 31, 2016 Battersea, London. Source: The A to Z of Victorian London. Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent, 1987.
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‘Conceptual Experiments’ in Carcerality and Colonialism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/01/16/conceptual-experiments-in-carcerality-and-colonialism/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on January 16, 2017 Preamble : In December, the Carceral Archipelago team – including Clare Anderson, Kellie Moss, Katie Roscoe, Carrie Crockett, Lorainne Paterson, Anna McKay, and Adam Barker – attended the Carceral Geographies...
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Criticality, objectivity and values-neutrality
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/11/21/criticality-objectivity-and-values-neutrality/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 21, 2017 ‘While it is advisable to interrogate our research to see if we’re not engaging in wishful thinking and to make sure it is capable of acknowledging possible...
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Library
https://le.ac.uk/medicine/about/leicester-medical-society/about/library
The Leicester Medical Book Society was founded in 1800 as an association of local doctors, to provide a medical book lending library.
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Arch-I-Scan’s 2022 in Review
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2023/01/10/arch-i-scans-2022-in-review/
Posted by Victoria Szafara in The Arch-I-Scan Project on January 10, 2023 Please click here or the image below to be redirected to this blog post on the Arch-I-Scan news website.
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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.