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• A change of plan for Juno’s orbit

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/11/14/a-change-of-plan-for-junos-orbit/

  Posted by Rosie Johnson in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on November 14, 2016 This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter.

• Work begins to transform Freemen’s Common

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-work-begins-freemens-common

  Freemens A group of people on a construction site posing for a photo|The transformation of the Freemen’s Common area, at the University of Leicester, began today with a ground breaking ceremony.

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• From Berlin to Leicester: A Looted Book’s Tale

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/11/05/from-berlin-to-leicester-a-looted-books-tale/

  Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on November 5, 2024 Please note that this post contains content relating to suicide and the Holocaust.

• 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)

• 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.

• The U.S. Media Index database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/24/the-u-s-media-index-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2021 F ind out who owns what . Compiled by the Future of Media Project the index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets.