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• The human legacy of American troops in Leicester

  Date: 2 Dec 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-human-legacy-of-american-troops-in-leicester

  The story of American soldiers in Leicester during World War Two is well known, as are the many wartime romances and the story of GI brides who...

• Spirit of the 1960s and 70s kept alive in new book about Neil Young

  Date: 9 Nov 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-1960s-and-70s-kept-alive-in-new-book-about-neil-young

  A new book on the musical travels of Neil Young, one of the most significant recording and performing artists of the late twentieth and early...

• The fight for minority rights in the United States to be explored at event

  Date: 8 Oct 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/the-fight-for-minority-rights-forms-2018a-continuous-thread-of-american-history2019-1

  Issues of racism - from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s up until today - and how the ongoing fight for minority rights has formed...

• Transformative plan to pioneer a distinctive elite in higher education

  Date: 22 Sep 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/transformative-plan-to-pioneer-a-distinctive-elite-in-higher-education

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has unveiled a transformative plan to create a university that represents a ‘distinctive elite’...

• Leicester reaches 15 million readers on The Conversation

  Date: 27 Aug 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-reaches-1-5-million-readers-on-the-conversation

  Academics from across the University have collectively captured the imagination of over 1.

• Flexible degrees offered by Leicester

  Date: 22 Jul 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/leicester-to-offer-flexible-degrees

  Leicester is pioneering its ‘Pathways’ programme, which it believes will provide the most flexible curriculum in the UK, with students able to...

• American Studies student to take the long way home for charity

  Date: 3 Jun 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/american-studies-student-to-take-the-long-way-home-for-charity

  A student will join one of his oldest friends on a daunting 60-mile-a-day cycling trip from Austria to England in a mere 24 days.