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  • Putumayo: the History and Culture of a Latin American Conflict Zone

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/sp3155

    Module code: SP3155 This module will focus on the history and culture of the Putumayo, a region of the Colombian Amazon which shares a border with Ecuador and Peru.

  • The history of genetic fingerprinting

    https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/history

    Read about the history of genetic fingerprinting, and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys' journey from Oxford to Leicester to beyond genetic fingerprinting.

  • Black Britain on Film Collection

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/10/18/black-britain-on-film-collection/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2019 Free via the BFI player this collection of films celebrates the Black presence in Britain.

  • Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/freedom-to-marry-oral-history-collection/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Free access to this important collection from the University  of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center .

  • The people in the film

    https://le.ac.uk/centenary/so-that-they-may-have-life/people

    The film shows Dr Astley Clarke and Lily McCurdy walking the same path a century apart. The film features students, alumni and staff playing the roles in the film.

  • Research seminar: 'Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations'

    https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events/talking-transformations

    Find out about our research seminar: 'Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations', with guest speaker Dr Manuela Perteghella.

  • The history of Leicesters printing press

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/the-history-of-leicesters-printing-press

    In a feature entitled 'Printing in Leicester', Dr John Hinks from the Centre for Urban History has discussed the ups and downs of Leicester's printing press throughout history.

  • Experts probe Mumbais history

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/experts-probe-mumbai2019s-history

    The history of India’s richest city, Mumbai, has been explored at an international conference co-convened by the University of Leicester.

  • Irish Independence film collection

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/irish-independence-film-collection/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 Free access via the Irish Film Institute player to this great collection of British news reel films covering the period 1900-1930 with such key events as WW1, the Easter Rising, the...

  • DNA and family history explored in public lecture

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

    The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

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