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Aftermath
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/aftermath
Browse interviews with residents of Leicestershire discussing the aftermath of the First World War, including getting back to work, demobilsation and politics.
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University of Leicester recognised in UK's Best Breakthroughs list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-university-of-leicester-recognised-in-uks-best-breakthroughs-list
Discovery of DNA Fingerprinting celebrated for transformational impact on everyday lives The discovery of DNA fingerprinting from the University of Leicester has today been named as one of the UK’s 100 best breakthroughs for its significant impact on people’s everyday lives.
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Leicester historians guest edit Centenary journal edition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/howard-journal
Leading historians from the University of Leicester have guest edited a special Centenary issue of the prestigious Howard Journal of Crime and Justice.
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Lost tombs and quarries rediscovered on British military base in Cyprus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/cyprus-archaeology
University of Leicester Archaeological Services rediscovers 46 sites at the Eastern Sovereign Base Area at Dhekelia, Cyprus, working on behalf of the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO)
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Past conferences
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/pre-modern-towns-group/past-conferences
2020: Material Culture and the Pre-Modern Town Saturday, 25 January 2020 Main Building, Rooms MAL 122 and MAL 123, Birkbeck College WC1E 7HX 2019: The Family in the Pre-Modern Town The 41st annual meeting was held on Saturday 26th January 2019 at...
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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.
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University of Leicester takes part in Being Human Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/14-being-human-festival
The University of Leicester will join universities throughout the UK and open its doors to share its innovative humanities research with the public. The Being Human festival, now in its fifth year, will be based on the theme of ‘Origins and Endings’.
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New archive shares insight to Attenborough refugees’ life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/attenborough-helga-bejach-orphan-college-house
An archive of previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters from the family of Helga Bejach has been loaned to the University of Leicester.
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Research centres
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-centres
The School is home to three internationally-known research centres (Regional and Local History, Stanley Burton Centre and Urban History). Staff in the School are also heavily involved in two multidisciplinary research centres (American Studies and the Medieval Research Centre).
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Excitement builds for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/jwst-launch
MIRI, like much of JWST’s instrumentation, will be protected from the intense radiation of the Sun by a huge five-layer sunshade which will unfold remotely as the telescope journeys to its final destination, around Lagrange point 2 (L2), where the gravitational pull of the...