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The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code
Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season. But now Leicester literary experts are part of an international team looking to uncover the secrets of the author’s coded manuscripts.
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School of English Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 5
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/page/5/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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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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Starting the UOSH Midlands Hub
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/03/08/starting-the-uosh-midlands-hub/
A blog about the establishment of the Midlands Hub of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.
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Starting with the tidyverse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/teachingr/2020/08/31/starting-with-the-tidyverse/
Discussion of teaching the tidyverse without first introducing students to base R
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The double-minded revolutionary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/02/22/the-double-minded-revolutionary/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on February 22, 2017 In 1884, a Russian woman by the name of Liudmila Volkenshtein was found guilty of anti-tsarist “terrorism” by a military court in St Petersburg.
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Event to highlight life-changing research to help children born prematurely and children suffering from lung disease
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/event-to-highlight-life-changing-research-to-help-children-born-prematurely-and-children-suffering-from-lung-disease
Life-changing research into helping children born prematurely and those suffering from lung disease will be showcased at an event organised by Action Medical Research at the Stamford Court conference centre on Thursday 19 May.
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Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology
https://le.ac.uk/law/research/research-themes/criminal-law-criminal-justice-and-criminology
The Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology research cluster is comprised of staff engaged in research related to criminal justice matters, from the substantive criminal law to the administration of justice to criminological perspectives.
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Brand new Attenborough Arts Centre Whats On Guide now available
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/brand-new-attenborough-arts-centre-2018what2019s-on-guide2019-now-available
Attenborough Arts Centre has just released their ‘What’s On Guide’; a compilation of all events taking place from August 2017 until January 2018. The events on offer cover a wide variety of dramatic arts, from theatre and comedy to live music and much more.
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Professionalism – the Wisdom of the Minions
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2016/08/04/professionalism-the-wisdom-of-the-minions/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 4, 2016 Following from the release of the Minions movie, and of course not forgetting their impact via ‘Despicable me’, I must confess to having a feed from their “wisdom of the minions”.