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Academic year: 2012-2013
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/12-13
Browse the speakers from the Centre for English Local History's seminar events, held in 2012-2013.
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Cities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/07/02/cities-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2014 Cities of Opportunity Interesting new report on urban demographics from PriceWaterHouse Cooper. Covers 30 major cities worldwide.
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Physics & Astronomy: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/leigh_fletcher/page/2/
The Jupiter Time Capsule Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on August 3, 2016 Given that we don’t yet know whether a planetary core exists within Jupiter, much of our understanding of giant planet formation comes from a...
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Discovering Peterloo in Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/11/23/discovering-peterloo-in-special-collections/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on November 23, 2018 Guest post from Dr William Farrell, Research Services Consultant.
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Mercury mission carrying Leicester instrument starts final year of its long journey
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/mercury-bepi-mission-leicester-instrument-final-journey
Space scientists at the University of Leicester are marking the final year before the cutting-edge instrument they designed and built will arrive in orbit around the planet Mercury.
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OASCIV: Making Oasis Civilisation in the Moroccan Sahara
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/diverse-heritage/oasis-civilisation
OASCIV: Making Oasis Civilisation in the Moroccan Sahara project, team members and select publications
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Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/21/criminal-laws-on-homosexuality-in-african-nations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 21, 2014 Criminal Laws on Homosexuality in African Nations Useful chart produced in February 2014 by the Law Library of the Library of Congress which summarizes the treatment of...
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State of Broadband 2013 Report
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/09/27/state-of-broadband-2013-report/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 27, 2013 State of Broadband 2013 report released by the Broadband Commission for Digital Development.
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Occupy Wall Street protest site
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-protest-site/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 http://occupywallst.org/ This website is a good example of the Internet being used to organise protests. The website includes user generated maps, video streams and organisers materials.
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Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch
Amongst other things, it will be able to see the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, along with studying planet formation around distant stars.