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                    Wendy Hickling OBE, JP, DL (1936-2017)https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/wendy-hickling “In our rooms, with outstretched arms you could touch each wall. You were allowed five items on your dressing table and nothing on the radiator. If you contravened this rule your surplus items were confiscated and you had to pay to get them back. 
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                    Postgraduate loanshttps://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/postgraduate-loans When applying for a Masters degree, you may be eligible to apply for a Postgraduate Loan to cover the costs of studying. These loans work in a similar way to Undergraduate Student Loans. 
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                    Cheryl Davenporthttps://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/people/business-advisory-board/cheryl-davenport Cheryl has 34 years’ experience as a leader in the public sector, private sector, and in membership bodies in both the UK and USA. 
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                    Pop singer honoured by University of Leicester for his museums heritage workhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/david Pop vocalist, essayist and art historian, David McAlmont, has been honoured by University of Leicester during a ceremony today (Friday 19 July). 
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                    A new union supports struggling artists in times of austerityhttps://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/26-a-new-union-supports-struggling-artists-in-times-of-austerity Latest University of Leicester CAMEo Cuts edition exposes the dire working conditions of many artists and explains how Artists’ Union England, a new trade union for artists, campaigns for improvements 
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                    Onlinecensorship.orghttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/onlinecensorship-org/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 Onlinecensorship.org Created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 
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                    Global Gender Gap Report 2022https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/07/29/global-gender-gap-report-2022/ Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 29, 2022 Global Gender Gap Report 2022 | World Economic Forum (weforum.org) Get information on the trends from 2020. The report records that it will take another 132 years to close the gap. 
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                    The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/ Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on... 
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                    “Of Ainu Women and Russian Prisoners: Listening for the Voice of the Other” University of Leicesterhttps://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/04/30/of-ainu-women-and-russian-prisoners-listening-for-the-voice-of-the-other/ Sakhalin, Bronislaw Pilsudski, political exile, Chufsamma, Ainu, indigenous tribes, prisoners, Ket, Fridtjof Nansen, Russian colonization, University of Leicester 
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                    Publicationshttps://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/publications Learn more about the publications produced by the academics and students in the Centre for English Local History.