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Book Group: A Tourist in Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/06/29/tourist-2/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on June 29, 2015 First Edition of A Tourist in Africa (1960) Before last Saturday, I kept quiet about A Tourist in Africa ’s reputation as Waugh’s ‘worst book’.
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Leicester PhD student one of UKs top conservationists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/leicester-phd-student-in-uks-top-50-conservationists-list
Tim Mackrill (pictured left), a PhD student in our Department of Genetics and Senior reserve officer of the Rutland Osprey Project, has featured at number 34 in the BBC Wildlife Magazine's top 50 conservation heroes in the UK.
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Pathways privacy notice for teachers, advisers, care workers and/or parents
https://le.ac.uk/policies/privacy/teachers-and-parents/pathways-for-teachers
Find out more about how the data is handled for teachers and learners around the collaborative partnership of the Pathways team.
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Blog 3: Items of Interest. Guest post by Jenni Hunt.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/04/09/blog-3-items-of-interest-chosen-by-jenni-hunt/
Third blog of 3 by Jenni Hunt, temporary archive assistant, about the items she found most interesting during the listing work she has been doing.
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Academic co-curates special exhibition on Joe Orton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/academic-co-curates-special-exhibition-on-joe-orton
The National Justice Museum has launched its first-ever crowdfunding campaign to celebrate the work of Leicester playwright, Joe Orton.
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Leicester staff member to appear on Sky's Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/25-sky-portrait-artist-of-the-year-megan-mcmullan
04GBRu357rQ|University of Leicester’s Megan McMullan will make her TV debut competing against other amateur artists on Sky’s Portrait Artist of the Year 2019. University of Leicester Porter Megan McMullan will feature on Sky’s Portrait Artist of the Year 2019.
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Paralympic Gold for Leicester sports scholar
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/nick-cummins-paralympics-gold
University of Leicester History PhD student and sports scholar Nick Cummins has won Gold as part of Great Britain’s Wheelchair Rugby squad at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
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Origins of Pepyss famous diary unravelled
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/origins-of-pepys2019s-famous-diary-unravelled
The diary of the seventeenth-century cultural icon Samuel Pepys - which contains references to bribery, illicit sex, and criticisms of powerful men – has an enduring legacy, and Dr Kate Loveman from the School of English will be unravelling why it was written at an event at...
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Consuming Authenticities: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Awful Things Began to Happen: Rapid Change of Ainu Homeland and Convict Labour as Seen by the Ainu,
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/01/27/awful-things-began-to-happen-rapid-change-of-ainu-homeland-and-convict-labour-as-seen-by-the-ainu-by-minako-sakata/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on January 27, 2015 The Kamikawa region is one of areas that today still has relatively a large population of the Ainu.