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Archive for November 2024: Page 2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/page/2/
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First study examining pregnancy in the Viking Age: Pregnant women wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers, but also a harsh world where not all newborns were given burial or born free
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/first-study-into-pregnancy-in-viking-age
A new, interdisciplinary study is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.
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Indigeneity and Carcerality: Thinking about reserves, prisons, and settler colonialism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/10/27/indigeneity-and-carcerality-thinking-about-reserves-prisons-and-settler-colonialism/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on October 27, 2016 In 1871, a group of men – hereditary chiefs of the Six Nations of the Grand River – met with anthropologist Horatio Hale in the town of Brantford, Ontario.
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Christian De Vito
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cdv8/
I am research associate on the Carceral Archipelago project, focusing on convict circulation in the late-colonial and post-colonial Latin America. And I am honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
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Politics and Sociology BA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/politics-and-sociology-ba/2026
Leicester’s Politics and Sociology degree explore the links between politics and social issues and offers the flexibility to shape your course around your interests.
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History and Politics BA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/history-and-politics-ba/2026
Leicester’s History and Politics course will help you to develop an advanced understanding of the modern world, whilst practical modules will develop your career skills.
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International Relations BA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/international-relations-ba/2026
At Leicester you’ll explore international relations from 1945 to the present, and choose from a wide range of modules to shape your degree around your interests.
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“So, can we say ‘skills’?”
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/06/12/so-can-we-say-skills/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on June 12, 2018 As those whose unhappy lot in life it is to have to listen to me moaning on about matters educational will know, I’m not a big fan of the term ‘skills’.
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Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-cathedral-ulas
Preliminary investigations took place in late 2021, with the ULAS team carefully uncovering more than 120 burials in the top-most layers on the site. The area was once used as the churchyard for burials of people from all walks of life living in the surrounding parish.
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Lessons learned from Leicester's lockdown
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/leicester-lockdown-lessons-learned
2000|External engagement Universities do not exist in bubbles. We live in local ecosystems and it is essential for the benefit of the institution and the wider community to develop meaningful partnerships and work collaboratively for the public good.