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Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar3054
Module code: AR3054 Warfare and other forms of conflict and violence are typical, if not universal, features of human societies.
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Women’s experiences of lockdown make up House of Commons exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/lockdown-women
A virtual exhibition that highlights the experiences of women during the pandemic launches at the House of Commons this week. Lockdown House is a collaborative project between University of Leicester, University of Lincoln and Robert Gordon University.
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Mapping project reveals 50 years of land use change along the coast
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/mapping-project-reveals-50-years-of-land-use-change-along-the-coast
One of the biggest mapping projects of the 20th century has been repeated fifty years on by the National Trust to understand how the way that land is used along the coast has changed since 1965.
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Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/11-dickens-lecture
Charles Dickens’ strained marriage is the subject of a free public lecture presented on Wednesday 20 November 2019 by our Victorian Studies Centre.
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University's big band to stage charity gala in aid of Parkinson’s UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/swing-shuffle-big-band-charity-gala-parkinsons
The University of Leicester is proud to support Swing and Shuffle – a student-led charity event that promises a night of immersive music and community spirit while raising vital funds for Parkinson’s UK.
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£1.8m AHRC funding awarded to Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/ahrc-grant
Nearly two million pounds of funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has been awarded to the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History (SAAH) to upgrade its archaeological material laboratories.
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Leicester academic to lead UN session on transport of the future
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/sarah-jane-fox
University of Leicester’s Dr Sarah Jane Fox will lead a session on sustainable transport at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland this month. The session is part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which is taking place from 27 May until 31 May.
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Weird Fiction/Weird Film
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3035
Module code: EN3035 The first decades of the twentieth century saw rapid upheaval in several disciplines of knowledge: Howard Carter’s excavations in Egypt, Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto, and the work of Freud and Einstein, radically rewrote conceptions of history, space, and...
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Black History timeline: enslavement, resistance and abolition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/black-history-timelines/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Created through a collaboration between Black Cultural Archives and Royal Holloway, University of London this timeline includes chronologies and digitised documents from the BCA and...
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Congressional Directories, 19th and 20th centuries
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/02/03/congressional-directories-19th-and-20th-centuries/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2023 Congressional Directory from the 19th and 20th centuries. Are being digitised by USA GPO. The first release includes Directories from 1869–1888, as well as 1993.