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Looting the Archives: Joe Orton
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2016/05/13/looting-the-archives-joe-orton/
A blog post by Dr Samantha Mitschke about the scrapbook of press reviews kept by Joe Orton about his play 'Loot'.
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Farewell to Cassini
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2017/09/08/farewell-to-cassini/
University of Leicester, Cassini
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William Farrell
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/william_farrell/
I work in the Library's Research Services Team. I provide open publishing services, including Leicester Open Journals, as well as supporting literature searching and reference management.
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New hope for patients with aggressive asbestos-linked cancer as trial shows a targeted cancer treatment can improve survival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/asbestos-cancer-nero-leicester-fennell
Leicester researchers have shown for the first time that a drug that prevents cancer cells from repairing can control the growth of mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer caused by asbestos
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UK plays leading role as landmark mission launches to unlock secrets of Earth’s magnetic shield
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/landmark-mission-launches-earth-magnetic-shield-smile
SMILE launches to provide first complete picture of how Earth’s magnetic field responds to the solar wind, improving predictions of solar storms that disrupt GPS, communications and power grids.
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A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies: book launch
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2018/07/31/a-global-history-of-convicts-and-penal-colonies-book-launch/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 31, 2018 On July 4th 2018, the eminent scholar of empire, Professor Philippa Levine (University of Texas, Austin), launched my edited volume, A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies, at the annual conference of...
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The Dryad Collection Paper work
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/04/13/the-dryad-collection-the-craft-of-paper-work/
Examples of books from the University of Leicester Dryad Collection concerning Paper work crafts. Images of paper plaiting, paper sculpture and paper costumes.
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Carceral Archipelago: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/page/4/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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New Saturn images show a change of seasons – and a last glimpse of its huge, warm polar vortex
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/saturn-autumn-images
New observations of Saturn by University of Leicester planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of the famous ringed planet
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“So, can we say ‘skills’?”
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/06/12/so-can-we-say-skills/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2018 As those whose unhappy lot in life it is to have to listen to me moaning on about matters educational will know, I’m not a big fan of the term ‘skills’.