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Invisible Hands, and the Market as Storytelling
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/10/23/invisible-hands-and-the-market-as-storytelling/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on October 23, 2017 Valerie Hamilton, co-author of Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England with Martin Parker from ULSB muses on the way in which Adam Smith and subsequent economists have used the famous metaphor of an...
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The secret peacemaker: A quiet leader of our time
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/05/24/the-secret-peacemaker-a-quiet-leader-of-our-time/
Posted by mstein in School of Business Blog on May 24, 2017 Professor Mark Stein of the School of Business mourns the key intermediary between the British government and the IRA with Leicester connections, who has died aged 80.
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Leicester experts uncover secrets of healthy ageing from the world’s oldest person
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/healthy-ageing-leicester-genome-maria
Leicester scientists have helped study the genetics and lifestyle factors that enabled María Branyas Morera, officially the oldest person in the world until she died last year, to reach 117 years old
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Reinventing the Past: The French Historical Novel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/fr3045
Module code: FR3045 In this module, you will analyse the history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical novel as a genre and its evolution in relation to political contexts, to historiographical practices, and to literary aesthetic currents.
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American Literary Figures from the Settler to the Hipster
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en2011
Module code: EN2011 This exciting module explores American literature through a range of literary figures.
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Verity Smith: Project management at the National Media Museum
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/verity-smith
Verity Smith graduated from Museum Studies at Leicester with an MA in 2012 and has since worked in varied and exciting roles in the museum sector.
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The sky’s the limit for students thanks to University partnership with Leicestershire Aero Club
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/sky-limit-students-partnership-leicestershire-aero-club
First students have undergone flight training as part of a new Flight Test Course from School of Engineering , who have established a partnership with Leicestershire Aero Club to support training
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Dismemberment in Prehistory – Not Just for the Criminally Insane. By Shane McCorristine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/11/23/shane-mccorristine-dismemberment-in-prehistory-not-just-for-the-criminally-insane/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on November 23, 2015 Francisco Goya, “Great deeds! Against the dead!” (1810s). Source: Wikimedia Commons. For as long as humans have been around we have cut up, hacked, butchered, and mutilated corpses.
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Furnishing the Country House in 18th Century Britain
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ha7509
Module code: HA7509 This module introduces the field of furniture history and will equip you with the tools necessary to examine, analyse, and interpret country house furniture and furnishing schemes from the long eighteenth century.
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Bioactive Molecules
https://le.ac.uk/chemistry/research/chemistry-of-life/bioactive-molecules
Learn more about bioactive molecules, as part of our research into the chemistry of life in the School of Chemistry.