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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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Smallpox in Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/05/05/smallpox-in-leicester/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 5, 2015 ‘The Wyvern Smiles’ from ‘The Wyvern’, (Leicester, 20 November 1891).
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Improvement Science Fellowship
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2017/02/14/improvement-sci-fellowship/
SAPPHIRE’s Natalie Armstrong has recently been awarded a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowship, in this blog she reflects on her experiences so far and what she’ll be getting up to over the next three years.
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Evidence of 2,000 years of human activity found on market site in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/evidence-2000-years-human-activity-market
University of Leicester Archaeological Services carrying out excavations at the site of the city’s new market square, with discoveries including a Roman infant burial and remains of a dungeon believed to be from the 16th century
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Schrödinger’s Cat and the Hidden Feelings Box: PSHE and RSHE Education in a Digital World
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2025/07/14/schrodingers-cat-and-the-hidden-feelings-box-pshe-and-rshe-education-in-a-digital-world/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on July 14, 2025 Michelle O’Reilly, Diane Levine, Neil Sinclair, and Sarah Adams c What if being kind online is harder not because children don’t care — but because they can’t see inside...
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Chicxulub crater Leicester researchers investigate what killed the dinosaurs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/chicxulub-crater
A team of scientists, including University of Leicester researchers, has now reached the midpoint of an International Ocean Discovery Programme investigating the Chicxulub crater site - the location of the meteorite impact associated with a mass extinction event 66 million...
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The Story of Pulque, Part 1
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/10/the-story-of-pulque-part-1/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on March 10, 2015 In the 17th century, the Mexican historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl recorded a pre-Columbian legend about the origins of pulque.
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Invisible Hands, and the Market as Storytelling
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/10/23/invisible-hands-and-the-market-as-storytelling/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on October 23, 2017 Valerie Hamilton, co-author of Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England with Martin Parker from ULSB muses on the way in which Adam Smith and subsequent economists have used the famous metaphor of an...
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Geography with Foundation Year BSc
https://le.ac.uk/courses/geography-with-foundation-year-bsc/2026
There’s always another way to follow your passion. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study geography at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is for you.
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Hooray for the National Trust
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/04/05/hooray-for-the-national-trust/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 5, 2017 There are many things in life that one should really rise above and not respond to. One such thing, in my humble opinion, is the Daily Mail.