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Dryad Collection – basket weaving
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/30/the-dryad-collection-basket-weaving/
Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection , I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the cultivation of the types of natural...
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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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Pope Franciss appeal for Poland to welcome refugees may remain unanswered
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/2018pope-francis2019s-appeal-for-poland-to-welcome-refugees-may-remain-unanswered2019
Pope Francis’s appeal to Polish people to welcome refugees into the country and to embrace EU integration may remain unanswered, according to an expert from the Department of Politics and International Relations.
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Artistic PhD student pens animated message for World Diabetes Day
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/artistic-phd-student-pens-video-message-for-world-diabetes-day
A diabetes researcher at our University has combined science with art to produce a powerful awareness-raising message for World Diabetes Day.
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Chemistry researcher joins next series of Great British Bake Off
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/joshua-smalley-bake-off
Dr Joshua Smalley is to be a contestant on the next series of the Great British Bake Off.
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New report reveals University supports 1 in 23 jobs in the city
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/impact-report
Qu1_XUhbPFU|The University of Leicester contributes £360m annually to Leicester and Leicestershire, and supports every 1 in 23 jobs in the city, a new report reveals.
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Physics and Astronomy June 2021 Digest
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/07/01/physics-and-astronomy-june-2021-digest/
With exams now behind us, and hopefully a pleasant summer ahead, the Physics Community Team want to share some of the recent highlights from the news blog in May and June 2021.
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Leicestershire employers learn best practice at environmental pollution event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/mattioli-woods
Leicestershire industry and business leaders learnt about the increasing danger of everyday atmospheric pollution at a University of Leicester event.
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Regular exercisers should be reassured by results of heart study, experts claim
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/august/heart-study
A study by University of Leicester researchers, investigating the belief that too much exercise can be bad for the heart has found that the heart’s structure and function does adapt to high levels of habitual physical activity but these changes stay within normal ranges
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Sexual misconduct and harassment policy
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-11/sr11-appendix-1
This is the current version of the policy, valid since 4 December 2025. The previous version has been archived. Introduction 1. Content advisory: this policy contains descriptions of non-consensual sexual acts which some may find distressing.