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How to Train Your Dragonto Fly
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/how-to-train-your-dragon-to-fly
The breeds of dragon from the popular DreamWorks film series How to Train Your Dragon, based on the books by author Cressida Cowell, are of varying size and shape, ranging from the small but aggressive Terrible Terror which is just over a foot...
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Archaeologists identify changes to human bone following introduction of tobacco in Western Europe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/tobacco
University of Leicester researchers hope to better understand how tobacco consumption has historically impacted human health.
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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/about/
This is the blog of the Social Sciences Librarians at the University of Leicester. Your librarians are Andrew Dunn (Learning and Teaching) and William Farrell (Research). We hope to provide you with interesting and useful information on this blog.
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Booker Prize winner 2024
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/14/booker-prize-winner-2024/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 14, 2024 Congratulations to Samantha Harvey on winning the Booker Prize with Orbital. Find it in the library Reading Lounge (Ground floor) at 823.92 HAR.
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Hub for African Thought
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/hub-for-african-thought/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created at the London School of Economics, the hub aims to showcase African academic authors, offering profiles, reading lists and reviews.
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The Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) Database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/06/the-diversifying-and-decolonising-economics-d-econ-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 6, 2024 An online resource showcasing research of scholars from under-represented backgrounds taking non-mainstream approaches to economics.
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People of 1381
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/people-of-1381/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 An academic source (led by Professor Adrian Bell from Henley Business School at the University of Reading) providing commentary on the Peasants’ Revolt.
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Women’s History Advent Calendar
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/29/womens-history-advent-calendar/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 29, 2024 Starting on 1st December, a window to open every day till Christmas https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=nt1kee5497mdo9efkzij7kqyil69xnum to learn about women’s history.
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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/about/
Management should be studied in terms of its role in fostering economic and social prosperity and also with respect to its contribution toward economic, social, environmental, medical and physical devastation.