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‘One of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/08/01/one-of-the-most-remarkable-men-in-the-entire-history-of-archaeology/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on August 1, 2017 Two hundred years ago, on 1 August 1817, the adventurer-Egyptologist Giovanni Belzoni, described by Howard Carter, with good reason, as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of...
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Sherry in the filing-cabinet – and as for the milk-jug …
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/13/sherry-in-the-filing-cabinet-and-as-for-the-milk-jug/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 13, 2016 Our current exhibition from the Special Collections, ‘”Strangers in the Land”? Impressions of India’, explores the attitudes and reactions of the British in India, from the early 17 th century to the...
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Government issues record grant to University of Leicester to help students study abroad
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/turing-grant-scheme
University of Leicester has been awarded over £1 million from the UK Government’s Turing Scheme
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Bake-Off contestant shows science is as easy as pi at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/bake-off-contestant-science-pi
Science Kitchen hosts 2021 Great British Bake Off semi-finalist Jüergen Krauss for a pie-making workshop
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“An amazing few days” – Leicester’s rise up the Guardian rankings completes a hat-trick of good news
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/guardian-ranking
The University of Leicester is celebrating a hat-trick of good news within the space of a few days following a rise in the 2025 Guardian University Guide rankings.
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Impact of coronavirus pandemic is the “largest scale experiment ever” into global air quality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/march/24-largest-experiment
The coronavirus pandemic is the “largest scale experiment ever” into global air quality, according to Professor Paul Monks, Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Science at the University of Leicester, after new satellite images from the European Space...
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Succeed at Leicester privacy notice
https://le.ac.uk/study/succeed/succeed-at-leicester-privacy-notice
Read the privacy policy for the Succeed at Leicester project.
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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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Online COVID-19 rehab
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/covid-rehab
Professor Sally Singh leads a team to develop the new ‘Your COVID Recovery’ on-demand rehabilitation service.
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Seminars and events
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LeMID host a range of seminars and events with internal and external professionals, presenting a variety of ground-breaking research.