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• Margaret Byron

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/margaret-byron

  Margaret has held full-time teaching posts in Higher Education for almost 30 years, teaching Geography at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

• Living in Towns: Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Urbanism

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar2034

  Module: AR2034  What did towns look like after Roman decline? When do we see a ‘rebirth’ of towns? Were medieval towns heavily fortified? How clean were medieval towns and households? Were medieval towns dominated by religious structures? These are...

• Modern Ireland, 1939-1975

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2331

  Module code: HS2331 Ireland in 1945 was a tale of two countries: part of Europe, yet a place apart.

• Scientists pour cold water on claim British rivers are ‘cleanest since Industrial Revolution’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/river-water-quality

  Scientists and charities have poured cold water on recent claims that water quality in British rivers is “better than at any time since the end of the Industrial Revolution”.

• North Africa in Late Antiquity

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3020

  Module code: AH3020 What changes took place in Africa in the last years of the Roman occupation? Why did the monks of Egypt turn to the desert to express their devotion? How did the Vandals establish a new kingdom in Carthage? Why was Augustine so obsessed...

• Museums and social inclusion: the GLLAM report

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/museums-and-social-inclusion

  This research showed that museums and galleries can make a unique contribution towards addressing issues of social inclusion.

• Book on post-apartheid South Africa by Leicester academic published

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/book-on-post-apartheid-south-africa-by-leicester-academic-published

  Lecturer and South Africa specialist from our University Dr James Hamill has published a new book, Africa’s Lost Leader: South Africa’s Continental Role Since Apartheid.

• Academic publishes new book on Brexit Trump and the Media

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/academic-publishes-new-book-on-brexit-trump-and-the-media

  The impact of Brexit, Donald Trump and last month’s General Election on the media are explored in a new book titled 'Brexit, Trump and the Media' edited by Tor Clark from our School of Media, Communication and Sociology.

• Visions of Hell: The Fiction of Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3184

  Module code: EN3184 Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark, major (and popular) twentieth-century novelists, were both Catholic converts. She came from a half-Jewish working-class Edinburgh home, he from the Hampstead literati.

• What is a professional doctorate?

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/what-they-are/prof-doctorate

  Professional doctorates are equivalent to a PhD but have a focus on a specific professional context, such as social science, medicine or psychology.