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In my prison notebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/08/29/in-my-prison-notebook/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on August 29, 2016 Last year I came across a rare archival find: multiple editions of a 19th century prison newspaper covertly produced by Russian inmates between 1890 and 1905.
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Archaeology students from University of Leicester unearth very big Roman house in the country
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/roman-villa
Finds from latest excavation in Leicestershire may provide insight into the ‘rural charm’ of Britain to the Romans, while first-year archaeology students developed their excavation skills with Time Team filming for a feature later in the year
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Charity shop find is former student’s long-lost compass from University of Leicester days
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/charity-shop-find-alumnus-long-lost-compass
Staff at University of Leicester help to reunite an alumnus with a lost treasure after volunteers at Martock Charity Shop in Somerset discovered a compass with a 60-year old note
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PhD researchers rise to Three Minute Thesis challenge
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/three-minute-thesis-seaweed
More than 100,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold in the UK in 2020, with further demand for battery technology in hybrid vehicles.
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Locating the choir within the church
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-choir
A small area above the human remains in Trench 1 was carefully widened with a digger to give archaeologists better access to the burial. Jo Appleby and Turi King began to carefully remove the grave soil by hand. Work was slow, to avoid damage to the skeleton.
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Structural biology
https://le.ac.uk/lemid/strategic-areas/structural-biology
Work in the College of Life Sciences on the structure of proteins is providing insight on a wide range of fundamental processes such as cell motility, drug metabolism, gene activation and tuberculosis virulence.
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Spanish Pacific – the exhibition and the catalogue
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/18/spanish-pacific-the-exhibition-and-the-catalogue/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on June 18, 2014 During my research trip to Seville in January 2014, and then again in March, I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition Pacífico: España y la aventura de la Mar del Sur ( Pacific : Spain...
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Sounds in the silence of political exile
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/01/sounds-in-the-silence-of-political-exile/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on July 1, 2015 Sochaczewski placed himself right of the obelisk, standing My recent discovery of Alexander Sochaczewski’s painting, Farewell to Europe!, in the Museum Pawilon-X in Warsaw compelled me to think anew...
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Leicester engineer receives top award from HRH The Prince of Wales
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/leicester-engineer-receives-top-award-from-hrh-the-prince-of-wales
Mechanical Engineering student Abike Looi- Somoye has been presented with a national award by HRH The Prince of Wales at the annual Industrial Cadet Awards event in London.
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New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/4-new-study-underway-to-find-best-treatment-for-wake-up-stroke-patients
New study underway to find best treatment for wake-up stroke patients led by Professor Thompson Robinson, Head of Department of Cardiovascular Sciences