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Academic Review Spectre is the Bond movie Ive been waiting 30 years for
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/academic-opinion-spectre-is-the-bond-movie-ive-been-waiting-30-years-for
Professor James Chapman, from our Department of The History of Art and Film has reviewed the latest film in the James Bond franchise Spectre calling it 'terrific'.
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Diabetes milestone for Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/diabetes-milestone-for-leicester-researchers
A method for assessing people’s chances of having or developing Type 2 diabetes created by Leicester researchers has reached a major milestone - one million people have now been through the Know Your Risk section of the Diabetes UK website, which identifies people who may be...
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Why study presessional at Leicester?
https://le.ac.uk/cite/eltu/presessional/why-leicester
Get more information on why studying on the Presessional Programme at Leicester may be for you.
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Andrew Dunn: Page 24
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/24/
Academic Librarian.
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The Great Escape
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/04/19/the-great-escape/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on April 19, 2016 Peter A. Kropotkin, 1842-1921 Peter Kropotkin is remembered today as a brilliant Russian social revolutionary, geographer, scientist, and anarchist writer.
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Martha’s Rule mum discovers how the University of Leicester believes reading and writing can boost medical students’ empathy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/march/marthas-rule-empathy-leicester
A patient safety campaigner whose daughter died following a hospital mistake has met with University of Leicester Medical students to find out how a book club is boosting their empathy
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Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/31/transporting-convicts-from-new-zealand-to-van-diemens-land/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on October 31, 2017 By Dr Kristyn Harman Senior Lecturer in History, University of Tasmania Like many New Zealanders, I grew up hearing stories about the Australian penal colonies, particularly anecdotes of London...
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Medieval skeletons discovered at Leicester Castle
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/medieval-skeletons-discovered-at-leicester-castle
A team of Leicester archaeologists has uncovered medieval human remains at Leicester Castle. The skeletons, discovered by builders while laying new electrical cables, have yet to be radiocarbon dated or identified but it is thought they may be six or seven centuries old.
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Literary Leicester events
https://le.ac.uk/literary-leicester/events
Find out more about upcoming Literary Leicester events
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Early edition of Frankenstein in University archives gives rise to chilling story around its creation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/early-edition-of-frankenstein-in-university-archives-gives-rise-to-chilling-story-around-its-creation
A popular character during Halloween is the shambling mass of assorted body parts known as Frankenstein’s Monster from Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein – a creature who has remained a harrowing vision of what can happen when people try and create unnatural life since its...