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Top honours for nine influential individuals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/01-honorary-degrees
Influential individuals from the worlds of business, art, education, and more have received honorary degrees from the University of Leicester.
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Air pollution speeds up ageing of the lungs and increases chronic lung disease risk
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/09-air-pollution-lung-function-copd
A study of more than 300,000 people has found that exposure to outdoor air pollution is linked to decreased lung function and an increased risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Alan Buchan
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/alan-buchan
The University has learned, with sadness, of the death of Professor Alan Robson Buchan MD DPH FFPH, Emeritus Professor of Community Medicine, who passed away on New Year's Day.
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Simon Cole
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/simon-cole
We have learned, with deep regret, of the recent passing of Simon Cole, just weeks after his retirement from the position of Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police.
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Penny Bloods on display in the Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/09/penny-bloods-on-display-in-the-library/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2014 Penny Bloods, popular from the 1840s to the 1860s, were so named because of their preoccupation with the gory and sensational.
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Our current exhibition ‘Joe Orton in 1964’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/06/03/our-current-exhibition-joe-orton-in-1964/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 3, 2014 When Joe Orton’s play Entertaining Mr Sloane was performed in the West End in 1964, it provoked both virulent criticism and glowing praise – he enjoyed both in equal measure. The critic W.
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Sue Townsend (1946-2014)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/04/16/sue-townsend-1946-2014/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 16, 2014 It was with great sadness that we learned last week of the death of one of our depositors, Sue Townsend, the creator of the Adrian Mole diaries and one of the most popular British novelists of the late...
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Evelyn Waugh at the Huntington
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2016/07/08/evelyn-waugh-at-the-huntington/
Rationale for the Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector symposium to be held at the Huntington Library, 5-6 May 2017
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The Aesthetics of Authenticity in the Modern Chain Pub – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/02/13/the-aesthetics-of-authenticity-in-the-modern-chain-pub/
Discussion of a book chapter about the "Pub Authenticity-Value Aesthetic" in relation to the JD Wetherspoon pub chain, recently published in an edited volume Biographies of Drink (CSP, 2015)
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Library Internship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/02/20/internship/
Posted by Ceri Ashwell in Library Special Collections on February 20, 2014 From the majority of people I’ve spoken to it seems that few expected to work in academic libraries after leaving university. And the same goes for me.