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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.

• “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.

• News archive 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/law/news/law-news/news-archive-2019

  Read news stories from Leicester Law School in 2019.

• Asthma pill targets airway muscles to decrease attacks

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/13-asthma-pill

  asthma pills asthmatic person holding an inhaler|Results from a phase II clinical trial, experimental work on cells and computational modelling have together shown why the first pill for asthma in 20 years can help reduce asthma attacks.

• Risk calculator helps GPs predict which kidney disease patients need hospital care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-kidney-study

  A new study has discovered a way to help GPs predict which people with kidney disease are more likely to go on to develop kidney failure and need dialysis or a kidney transplant in the future.

• Attenborough Arts Centre awarded £250,000 by Paul Hamlyn Foundation for flagship SENsory Atelier programme

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/sensory

  The arts-based initiative has a proven transformational impact on SEN school pupils

• University of Leicester Chancellor to deliver Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/university-leicester-chancellor-maggie-royal-institution-christmas-lectures

  University of Leicester Chancellor, Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, will give this year’s Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution.

• Dataset will help advance research into neuro-degenerative diseases

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/epnd-neuro-degenerative-diseases-leicester

  A platform set up to help researchers look into the causes and treatments for neuro-degenerative diseases has released its first biomarker dataset with the help of experts from the University of Leicester

• Fold-out solar blankets to power satellites receives £1 million boost

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/fold-out-solar-blankets-power-satellites

  A new concept for a solar blanket to power satellites that can be folded away will be developed with engineering expertise from the University of Leicester thanks to new funding.

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