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Leicester is named Daily Mail University of the Year 2025
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/daily-mail-award
The University of Leicester has been crowned the Daily Mail University of the Year 2025.
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Five potential new businesses as University commercialisation initiative draws to a close
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/ventureversity-final
VentureVersity Live on 27 November showcased 11 projects turning university intellectual property into commercially viable ventures, marking the culmination of a year-long collaboration between the University of Leicester, De Montfort University, and Loughborough University
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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.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: The catalyst for change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/holocaust-memorial-day
Thursday, 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day, a time to reflect on the past to safeguard the future. At Leicester, the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies plays a pivotal part in achieving this goal.
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Joe Orton exhibition runs until 31 August 2014
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/07/14/joe-orton-exhibition-runs-until-31-august-2014/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 14, 2014 Our current exhibition in the Library, ‘Joe Orton in 1964’, which runs until 31 August 2014, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Orton’s first major success, Entertaining Mr Sloane .
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The Sweet and Twenties
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/08/20/the-sweet-and-twenties/
A review of Beverley Nichols' memoir The Sweet and Twenties
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The many languages of Sue Townsend
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/08/22/the-many-languages-of-sue-townsend/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on August 22, 2014 The Special Collections team has been joined for the last couple of weeks by Claire Preval , an undergraduate intern from the Department of the History of Art and Film.
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Digging Out the Past – the legacy of Alan McWhirr
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/06/13/digging-out-the-past-the-legacy-of-alan-mcwhirr/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on June 13, 2019 Alan McWhirr in a field. The first collection we have finished digitising for the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage (UOSH) project is a monthly radio series about archaeology, Digging Out the Past.
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Coventry Archives
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/11/22/coventry-archives-2/
A description of the collections from Coventry Archives that have been digitised by the UOSH project.
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Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/30/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 30, 2016 Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the Solar System,...