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• 50 years of credit cards

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/50-years-of-credit-cards/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Its 50 years since people started using credit cards in the UK with the issue of the first Barclaycards. The BBC has a fascinating social history feature.

• Food Stories – the afterlife of a research project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2017/11/24/food-stories-the-afterlife-of-a-research-project/

  Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on November 24, 2017 It’s obviously been quite a while since this blog was updated, but that doesn’t mean we have forgotten about Consuming Authenticities! In fact, plenty of exciting developments have been quietly happening...

• Leicester scientist helps fine-tune space telescope 1.5million km from home

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/05/20/leicester-scientist-helps-fine-tune-space-telescope-1-5million-km-from-home/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 20 May 2022 One of the Leicester space scientists who will make observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has travelled to the USA to help open the observatory’s ‘eyes’ to the universe.

• Two upcoming readings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/10/16/two-upcoming-readings/

  Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on October 16, 2014 In the next few days, I’ll be taking part in two public events, at Nottingham Festival of Words, and at the London launch of a unique book of essays.

• African sources of information

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/23/african-sources-of-information/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2015 Kenya digital archives: Google has been partnering with the Kenyan National Archives to provide free access to a great new online digital library .

• Changing face of journalism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/19/changing-face-of-journalism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 19, 2016 The Independent newspaper will be ceasing printed publication. A useful article on the conversation blog by a journalist involved in its early years sets the demise in context.

• SPELL events this term University of Leicester staff blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/01/17/spell-events-this-term/

  SPELL tree-planting, short story reading group, postgraduate students English

• Melanie Simms

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/ms745/

  Professor of Work and Employment.

• Welcome to our Summer Interns

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/29/welcome-to-our-summer-interns/

  SURE summer internships 2021

• “London Cider”- an inauthentic compound? – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/04/01/london-cider-an-inauthentic-compound/

  Summary of a 19th-century interpretation on cider making that reflects the role of place (city vs country) in the construction of authenticity.