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Exhibition brings Leicester’s Second World War voices to life to mark VE Day’s 80th anniversary
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/website-leicester-second-world-war-voices-ve-day-80th-anniversary
The voices of Leicester people who lived through the Second World War can now be heard on a website launched in time for the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Thursday 8 May 2025).
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A-Z articles
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles
Explore the Social Worlds A to Z articles at the University of Leicester.
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About the project
https://le.ac.uk/dickens-code/about
Learn more about the overview of 'The Dickens Code' project, including the many different areas of academia that will benefit from understanding more about the unique shorthand that Dickens used.
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Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/cricket-country-shortlisted
A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the Wolfson History Prize 2020.
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BHM 2020: We are black history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/bhm-2020-we-are-black-history
The month-long celebrations will be used as a springboard to launch a longer-term campaign led by the University to celebrate Black history and culture throughout the year.
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New Walk Museum vision
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/new-walk-museum-vision
This project set out to re-think the role of New Walk Museum and to identify a set of core values to inform future developments at the Museum.
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Working papers
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/finance-governance-and-enterprise/working-papers
Eccles, P., Grout, P.A, Siciliani, P. and Zalewska, A. 2023. Open banking and capital requirements. Bank of England WP. Wei, W. and Zalewska, A. 2023. Capitalists or fiduciary conscious agents? ESG mutual fund fees and investor sophistication Fatouh, M.
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Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948
https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging
External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.
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History and campus
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history
See how far we’ve come since we were first founded as Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College in 1921 - from getting our Royal Charter in 1957 to the discovery of Richard III’s remains in 2012.
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Explore our collections
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore
Explore the collections of archives, manuscripts and printed rare books housed in Archives and Special Collections.