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Secret documents online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/secret-documents-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 The new CIA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room can be found at https://www.cia.
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Classic Movie Posters Online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/26/classic-movie-posters-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2018 Great new digital collection from the Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin . They are gradually placing online over 10,000 posters from the 1920s-1970s.
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High Pay
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/01/11/high-pay/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 11, 2021 On 6th January the High Pay Centre declared that the median FTSE 100 CEO’s earnings for 2021 had surpassed the median annual wage for a full-time worker in the UK.
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Modern and Contemporary History BA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/contemporary-history-ba/2026
At Leicester you’ll explore modern and contemporary history, and learn about the political factors that shape historical events.
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Innovative UK-led space technology takes off on BepiColombo mission to Mercury
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/18-bepicolombo
BepiColombo MIXS Instrument - Mission to Mercury -t0H3nz_nkI MIXS instrument The MIXS instrument 700|With £6.
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The Mars mission that could prep for a human landing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/mars-mission-human-landing-770
Dr Beatriz Sánchez-Cano presents on the M-MATISSE at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting 2025
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Leading light in auroras to give prestigious astronomy lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/provan-aurora-lecture
Dr Gabrielle Provan from the University of Leicester is to give the Royal Astronomical Society’s James Dungey Lecture, focusing on the auroral light displays on Earth and beyond
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The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code
Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season. But now Leicester literary experts are part of an international team looking to uncover the secrets of the author’s coded manuscripts.
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Ten creative commissions
https://le.ac.uk/colonial-countryside/about/creative-commissions
The Colonial Countryside project has a partnership with Peepal Tree Press who have commissioned ten writers to write about each participating house in the project. Learn more about the commissioned writers and houses.
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Research explores women who produce and consume mm erotica and visual pornography
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/research-sheds-light-on-women-who-produce-and-consume-m-m-erotica-and-visual-pornography
The majority of women who like gay male pornography and erotica imagine themselves as men during their sexual fantasies, new research has found.