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A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.
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A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.
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Geology with Palaeontology BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/geology-with-palaeontology-bsc/2026
Life. Evolution. Extinction. They might be huge concepts, but you can easily break them down through the lens of palaeontology. If you love fossils, and what they can tell us, this geology degree is for you.
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Jordan
https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/countries/middle-east/jordan
We welcome students from Jordan. Find out about entry requirements, the Jordanian student community and other country-specific information.
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Bahrain
https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/countries/middle-east/bahrain
We welcome students from Bahrain. Find out about entry requirements, the Bahraini student community and other country-specific information.
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Reflections on my Professional Fellowship: Part Two
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/08/14/reflections-on-my-professional-fellowship-part-two/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on August 14, 2025 In February 2024, I was awarded a Professional Fellowship from The National Archives and Research Libraries UK Professional Fellowship Scheme, 2024-2025.
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Study shows slow walking pace is good predictor of heart-related deaths
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/study-shows-slow-walking-pace-good-predictor-of-heart-related-deaths
A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has concluded that middle-aged people who report that they are slow walkers could be at higher risk...
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Life-Writing, Prisoners of War and the Carceral Archipelago
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/11/10/life-writing-prisoners-of-war-and-the-carceral-archipelago/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on November 10, 2015 by Grace Huxford Lecturer in Nineteenth/Twentieth Century History, University of Bristol At the Carceral Archipelago conference held in September at the University of Leicester, I delivered a paper on...
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Local students begin to take their LEAP into University
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/local-students-begin-to-take-their-leap-into-university
On Wednesday 21 January, the University welcomed 40 local school and college students onto campus to begin to take their LEAP into University at the launch of our new Leicester Enhanced Access Programme (LEAP).
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About the project
https://le.ac.uk/insular-manuscripts/about-insular-manuscripts
The Insular Manuscripts project will publish an online listing of all known Insular Manuscripts dating before circa 850. We are aiming also to deliver a collection of all Insular Manuscripts that are currently available through the International Image Interoperability Framework.