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• George Harrison

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/george-harrison

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing of George Anthony Harrison, who lectured in history from the 1960s to the 1990s and remained a familiar figure on campus for many years afterwards. George passed away on 22 January 2025, aged 87.

• A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.

• Leicester scientists to unlock the secrets of the biological clock

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/leicester-scientists-to-unlock-the-secrets-of-the-biological-clock

  A new study led by the University of Leicester will investigate the how the length of tiny pieces of DNA called telomeres play a part in the biological ageing process.

• Vice-Chancellor speaks out on gender inequality in universities at international conference

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/vice-chancellor-speaks-out-on-gender-inequality-in-universities-at-international-conference

  Our President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has addressed the issue of gender inequality in universities at an international conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

• jbridges: Page 14

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/14/

  This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.

• Summertime, and the Gibbeting ain’t Easy… By Emma Battell Lowman

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/06/20/summertime-gibbet/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on June 20, 2016     Today is officially the first day of summer, and I welcome the season this year particularly grateful for something that this time last year hadn’t even crossed my mind.

• Ethnography Symposium

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/research-events/ethnography-symposium

  18th Annual Ethnography Symposium (online only), Living with failure all around: hope in the midst of despair? 27 — 29 August 2025 All around us, we find failure. Most immediately, higher education is in crisis.

• Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching: Academic and staff blogs from the Uni

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Caroline Lucas and ‘The Rest is History’ Podcast headline 2025 Literary Leicester festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/literature-festival-caroline-lucas-rest-is-history

  Literary Leicester is the University's free annual literature festival.

• HumanKind

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/humankind

  We are looking afresh at Calke Abbey’s past, reassessing the stories told about this place and exploring their potential to foster more meaningful connections.