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About us
https://le.ac.uk/medieval/about
Find out more about the University of Leicester's Medieval Research Centre, view contact details and discover the medieval background of Leicester.
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Lorna Unwin
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/lorna-unwin
We have learned, with sadness, of the recent passing of Professor Lorna Unwin, who was Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies in the 2000s.
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Multi-million pound international investment to launch new industrial research facility in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/multi-million-pound-international-investment-to-launch-new-industrial-research-facility-in-leicester
A multi-million pound Research Centre for metal and alloys has been launched in Leicester. It will enable the University of Leicester and partners to work with China for an initial period of five years to bring advanced thinking to metal production.
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Professor JHWG Liebeschuetz
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/wolf-liebeschuetz
It is with great sadness that the family of Professor John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz announces his passing, after a brief illness, on 12 July 2022 at the age of 95. We have lost a much-loved family member, friend to many, and a highly respected scholar of history.
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A Historical Long View of Posthumous Harm: Comparing organ snatching to body-snatching. By Floris To
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/16/organ-and-body-snatching/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 16, 2016 Improper Procurement and Retention Taking organs of dead children without parental permission at Alder Hey is a practice The Economist (2001) dubbed the ‘return of the body-snatchers’.
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Hope for first drug treatment for life-threatening aneurysms
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/october/aneurysms-drug-treatment
Research suggests cholesterol-lowering drugs could be repurposed as treatment in breakthrough for patients
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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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Ultra-hot gas around remnants of Sun-like stars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/07-stars
Stars (Left) Artist’s impression of the hot white dwarf GALEXJ014636.8+323615 (white) and its ultra-hot circumstellar magnetosphere (purple) trapped with the magnetic field (green). Credit: N. Reindl. (Right) Colour image of the white dwarf GALEXJ014636.
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New report shows UK ‘poorly prepared’ to reach net-zero carbon economy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/just-transition
The UK Government must take urgent action to deliver a ‘just transition’ for workers as the country shifts towards a greener economy, according to a new study.
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Talking points a range of topical issues tackled by academics 18 June 1 July
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/july/talking-points-a-range-of-topical-issues-tackled-by-academics-18-june-1-july
Professor Philip Shaw from the School of English has written an opinion piece for The Conversation where, two centuries after Waterloo, he discusses the famous painting commissioned by the Duke of Wellington after he triumphed over Napoleon.