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Britain’s largest ‘Sea Dragon’ discovered in Rutland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/rutland-sea-dragon
Ichthyosaurs first appeared around 250 million years ago and went extinct 90 million years ago. They were an extraordinary group of marine reptiles that varied in size from 1 to more than 25 metres in length, and resembled dolphins in general body shape.
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8th March is International Women’s Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/03/08/8th-march-is-international-womens-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2017 The theme this year is be bold for change.
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Tequila: Pulque’s Friend, Cousin, Usurper?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/01/tequila-pulques-friend-cousin-usurper/
Deborah Toner discusses the relationship and rivalry between pulque and tequila in Mexican history, and summarises a recently published book by Marie Sarita Gaytan, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2014)
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Leicester’s Juno Magnetospheric and Auroral Science
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/06/leicesters-juno-magnetospheric-and-auroral-science/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 6, 2016 While much of Stan Cowley’s early scientific career concerned theoretical and data analysis studies of the Earth’s outer plasma environment, involvement in work on the gas giant...
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Getting Started with Law in Children’s Lives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/licl/2014/11/19/getting-started-with-law-in-childrens-lives/
Posted by ekirk in Law in Children's Lives on November 19, 2014 Draft Alien for Law in Children’s Lives project Welcome to the Law in Children’s Lives project blog.
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Party Like it’s 1929
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/09/01/1929/
Invitation to an Eveybody's Reading 2014 event celebrating Evelyn Waugh.
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More on International Woman’s Day
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/13/more-on-international-womans-day/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2018 International Woman’s Day was celebrated on the 8 th March This year the theme was press for progress. In Spain over 5 million women joined a strike which was supported by local mayor.
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Are today’s twenty something’s better off than in the past?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/17/are-todays-twenty-somethings-better-off-than-in-the-past/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2018 Not according to this report from the Intergenerational Foundation Think tank It compared economic wellbeing, relationships, health, personal environment and a sense of belonging from...
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Chancellor’s International Scholarship
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/scholarships-discounts/chancellor
To honour Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD as the University of Leicester's Chancellor, we are offering our Chancellor's International Scholarship to eligible postgraduate international students.
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The destruction of Old St Paul’s
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/01/the-destruction-of-old-st-pauls/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016 350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with...