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Events
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/news/events
Events hosted by the Centre for Regional and Local History
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Research projects
https://le.ac.uk/aidam/research-projects
Ongoing and completed research projects by the team at the AIDAIM Centre.
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University of Leicester Technician Commitment Action Plan
https://le.ac.uk/the-technician-commitment/plan
Summary of the University of Leicester Technician's Commitment action plan, with a link to the PDF document.
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Botanic Garden family day is huge success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/botanic-garden-family-day-is-huge-success
The University Botanic Garden annual Plant Sale and Family Day took place on Sunday 1st July and once again it was a great success, attracting more than 1,500 people and raising more £7000.
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Academic provides national security briefing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/academic-provides-national-security-briefing
Dr Andrew Futter from the School of History, Politics and International Relations was recently invited to London to brief the UK National Security Secretariat at the Cabinet Office.
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Inspirational women at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/leicester2019s-inspirational-women
The Tab's Future 100, a definitive list of women at UK universities who are set to achieve incredible things in the future, includes seven fantastic women from our University. The recently launched 2018 edition, in partnership with J.P.
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Crocus Sundays signal the arrival of spring alongside hedgehog display for children
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/crocus-sundays-signal-the-spring-alongside-hedgehog-display-for-children
The springtime blooming of crocuses in the Botanic Garden will this year be accompanied by the unusual sight of thousands of salt-dough hedgehogs in March.
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Sluckin lectures
https://le.ac.uk/psychology-vision-sciences/sluckin-lectures
The Sluckin Lecture is an annual event at the University of Leicester to commemorate Professor Wladyslaw Sluckin (1919–1985), one of the original members of the University of Leicester’s Department of Psychology and Head of Department from 1973 until his retirement in 1984.
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History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/history-and-security-sector-reform
Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).
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Death and community in rural settlements: changing burial culture in small towns and villages, c. 1850-2007
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/death-and-community-in-rural-settlements
ESRC Research Grant (£256,277) April 2008-September 2011 Professor Keith Snell Professor Keith Snell is working with Dr Julie Rugg (University of York) on an 3-4 year ESRC funded project from January 2008, entitled 'Death and community in rural settlements: changing...