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• History of tobacco and our health

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/tobacco-history

  How did tobacco become one of the first truly global commodities, and arguably history’s most deadly habit?

• Talking points a range of topics tackled by academics this week

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/wolf-hall-thomas-more-and-the-turks

  Professor Norman Housley from the School of History has written an article about the BBC drama 'Wolf Hall', which portrays aspects of Tudor life, including diction, with what he describes as 'outstanding' historical accuracy.

• Space Park Leicester to lead key skills development discussion at Ignite Space 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/ignite

  Ignite Space conference take place from 5-6 February, where experts from Space Park Leicester will address the pressing skills shortage facing the UK space sector

• Nuclear expert cautions against unfamiliar new nuclear age

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/nuclear-technologies

  High-tech advances in weapons technologies and a return of ‘great power nuclear politics’, risk the world ‘sleepwalking’ into a nuclear age vastly different from the established order of the Cold War, according to new research undertaken at the University of Leicester.

• Brexit planning now urgent as leave date looms

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2019/02/21/brexit-planning-now-urgent/

  Posted by hconnolly in School of Business Blog on February 21, 2019 By Rachael Elliott, Head of Thought Leadership, Business Continuity Institute & Paul Baines, Professor of Political Marketing, University of Leicester.

• Podcast celebrates 10 years of major local health study with global impact

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/exceed-podcast

  Researchers behind a major health study involving 11,000 patients across the city and county have highlighted the benefits it has brought over the past 10 years

• University of Leicester announces partnership supported by Art Fund with leading UK museums, galleries and heritage organisations to advance trans inclusion.  

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leading-museums-trans-inclusion-partnership

  The University of Leicester's Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) has established a partnership supported by Art Fund – the national charity for art – with leading UK museums, galleries and heritage organisations to support a bold and ambitious step change...

• Event kickstarts drive to bring multi-million pound funding to East Midlands’ creative and cultural industries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/kickstart-multi-million-pound-funding-east-midlands-creative-cultural-industries

  Companies such as Google, IBM and Adobe were represented alongside the region’s business leaders, academics, funders and policymakers at The Future of the Creative and Cultural Industries event on 18 June.

• Student midwife shortlisted for prestigious award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/rcm-awards

  A student midwife, who was inspired to take up the profession because of her own childbirth experiences, is in line for a prestigious award

• Tuition fee and maintenance loans

  https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/fees-funding/tuition-maintenance-loans

  Find out about government tuition and maintenance loans for your undergraduate studies, as well as private loans.