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• Music is in the genes University staff to play at charity gig

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/music-is-in-the-genes-university-staff-to-play-at-charity-gig

  Staff from the Department of Genetics will be performing at a charity gig in aid of Parkinson’s UK. The Histones, who formed last year to celebrate the department’s 50th anniversary, will be appearing at the Shed in Leicester on Friday 26 June.

• The LSE-Real Estate Economics and Finance index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/01/12/the-lse-real-estate-economics-and-finance-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 12, 2024 REEF provides data on local property markets in England and Wales 2010-2020 using price paid data. Methodology provided on the website . There is also an interactive data dashboard here .

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/86/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• The Story of Pulque Part 2: A Tangle of Origins – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/18/the-story-of-pulque-part-2-a-tangle-of-origins/

  Overview of different pre-Columbian narratives about the origins or discovery of pulque, and the various political, historical, and cultural roles these narratives served particularly for the Mexica (Aztecs)

• Film shows ‘breathtaking’ emissions reductions during lockdown

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/april/07-air-quality-plots

  r7tYw_-00PM 7_3sFlNW5s8 AOmWrlpnzyE|Timelapse satellite imagery from the University of Leicester reveals startling reductions in air pollution.

• Dating the Social Death of the Eighteenth Century Criminal. By Rachel Bennett

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/06/23/dating-the-social-death-of-the-eighteenth-century-criminal-by-rachel-bennett/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 23, 2015 In April 2015 I presented a paper at a conference held at the University of Leicester entitled ‘When is Death?’ The conference was organised by members of the Wellcome Trust funded project, Harnessing the...

• How the enclosure of common land sparked riots revolts and resistance in the Midlands

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/how-the-enclosure-of-common-land-sparked-riots-revolts-and-resistance-in-the-midlands

  A series of riots by angry farmers opposing the enclosure of common land in the Midlands in 1607 will be the subject of this year’s Hoskins Lecture on 5 May.

• Insights into the workings of the brain revealed in lectures

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/insights-into-the-workings-of-the-brain-revealed-in-lectures

  Two outstanding PhD graduates from our University return this week to present their research to a public audience.

• A’ level results, HE and social mobility

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/18/a-level-results-he-and-social-mobility/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 18, 2017   How do this year’s A’ level results compare?  For official statistics see the Department of Education official data. from 2003 onwards.

• Mapping the future of University of Leicester’s iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-getty-foundation-grant

  Stirling and Gowan-designed building among ten new grants from Getty Foundation’s 2018 Keeping It Modern programme