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Consuming Authenticity Project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2014/12/17/consuming-authenticity-project/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on December 17, 2014 Really excited to be working on this project with you all.
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Fiendish Friday Quiz #2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/14/fiendish-friday-quiz-2/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on March 14, 2014 Thomas Gribble’s quiz proved so popular that another soon appeared in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter . Back in the eighties, Waugh fans had to wait months between installments.
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University of Leicester Staff Blog In Defence of Creative Writing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/03/19/in-defence-of-creative-writing/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on March 19, 2014 Our newest colleague, Dr Jonathan Taylor, responds to Hanif Kureshi in Leicester Exchanges : http://leicesterexchanges.com/2014/03/18/teaching-creative-writing/ .
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What is graduation?
https://le.ac.uk/graduation/what-is-graduation
Your Graduation Ceremony is an opportunity to mark your achievements and acknowledge your hard work after your studies with the University of Leicester.
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Leicester, Leicestershire
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/leicestershire/leicester
Listen to speakers from Leicester, Leicestershire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.
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The hunt for the Christmas meteorite
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-hunt-for-the-christmas-meteorite
An article by the BBC discussing a 4.5bn-year 'Christmas meteorite' - the biggest to hit the UK - which crashed on Christmas Eve, 1965, in the village of Barwell in Leicestershire has quoted Dr Leigh Fletcher from the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Leicestershire girls challenged to uncover the story behind Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/leicestershire-girls-challenged-to-uncover-the-story-behind-richard-iii
Thousands of girls from across Leicestershire are being challenged to find out more about King Richard III as part of an innovative new badge from Girlguiding Leicestershire.
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Relive the amazing discovery of King Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/relive-the-amazing-discovery-of-king-richard-iii
An historic and scientific exploration of the work that went into finding and identifying the lost remains of King Richard III will be held by the University of Leicester during the week of his reinterment.
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Battlefield feeling changing perceptions of masculinity in war
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/2018battlefield-feeling2019-changes-perceptions-of-masculinity-in-war
A new project led by Dr Holly Furneaux from the School of English will shake up traditional views of masculinity on the battlefield by exploring the heroism of the English ‘Boy Captain’ Audley Lempriere, who gave his life fighting during the Crimean War.
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Archaeologists reveal mysteries of lost 3000yearold civilisation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/archaeologists-reveal-mysteries-of-2018lost2019-3-000-year-old-civilisation
The research of Professor David Mattingly of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History conducted in southern Libya will reshape the history of early Africa - after uncovering the mysteries of a lost civilisation of Saharan people called the Garamantes, whose...