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Viking figurines were ‘more than just jewellery’, and were used and handled in a variety of ways, including long-term curation, 'decapitation', and attached to Christian artefacts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/viking-jewellery-mythology-silver-bronze
Senior author Dr Christina Tsoraki, of the School of Heritage and Culture, University of Leicester adds, "By studying the wear of the 'valkyrie' pendants -- the valkyries being female mythological beings that would bring slain warriors from the battlefield to...
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The mystery of the impossible black hole
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/11/mystery-impossible-black-hole/
In September 2020 the LIGO/Virgo team announced the detection of two black holes merging. Two impossible black holes.
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National Archives: Olympic record
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/21/national-archives-olympic-record/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 21, 2012 http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/olympics/ A specialist section of pages created by the National archives to highlight their Olympic and Paralympic games holdings.
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More on overtime
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/24/more-on-overtime/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2019 How much overtime do British workers do? The Office for National Statistics has Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) .
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Related Research
https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/related-research
The Impact of Diasporas research programme was related to a number of other projects within the University of Leicester and in other institutions including a variety of genealogical studies on the Isle of Man, Cotentin Peninsula, and the British Romany population.
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Vacancies
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/phage-research/vacancies
2025 Institute for Precision Health Application deadline: 28 February 2025 - more information Investigating Bacteriophage Therapy to Treat Pleural Infection BBSRC Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership Application deadline: 16 January 2025 -...
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Sergio Currarini
https://le.ac.uk/people/sergio-currarini
The academic profile of Professor Sergio Currarini, Professor of Economics at University of Leicester
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2019
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019
Fahad Sadah, computer science student Professor Sir Hans Kornberg, former Head of the Department of Biochemistry Rachel Abounouar, ELTU Manager John Bradshaw, former Head Groundskeeper Sab Bhaumik, Honorary Professor in Psychiatry Simon North, a...
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Simon Gill
https://le.ac.uk/people/simon-gill
The academic profile of Professor Simon Gill, Chair in Theoretical Mechanics at University of Leicester
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Economic History 2
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ec3090
Module code: EC3090 The fall of communism, the Gulf and Iraq wars, the Greece debt crisis and Brexit are just some of the key historical events that have led to substantial changes in economic policies since the end of World War 2.