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Post-Mortem Punishment: A Fate Worse than Death? By Rachel Bennett
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/09/14/post-mortem-punishment-a-fate-worse-than-death/
Posted by Rachel Bennett in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on September 14, 2015 A key question I have repeatedly asked myself in the researching and writing up of my PhD thesis, and one that permeates the Criminal Corpse project, asks why punish the dead? The 1752 Murder...
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Literature, Art and the Sublime
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3154
Module code: EN3154 In this module you will consider how writers, artists and philosophers respond to the concept of the sublime.
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Observing Jupiter’s Weather – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/28/observing-jupiters-fierce-weather-from-the-ground/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 28, 2016 In late April 2016, I had the privilege of spending a few weeks in Hawaii, observing on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, using a spectrograph called TEXES.
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Women's Writing in the Midlands, 1750-1850
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/womens-writing-midlands
This commissioned piece from the Centre for New Writing focusses on the lives and writing of the abolitionist women in the Midlands during the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
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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...
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Apprentice wanted to work on some of the most exciting space science research in the UK
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/apprentice-wanted-to-work-on-some-of-the-most-exciting-space-science-research-in-the-uk
A unique opportunity for an apprentice has opened at the Space Research Centre. The three to four year programme will include a variety of hands-on practical experience on some of the most exciting space science currently being researched at the University.
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Convict Labor and Its Commemoration: the Mitsui Miike Coal Mine Experience
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/01/09/convict-labor-and-its-commemoration-the-mitsui-miike-coal-mine-experience/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on January 9, 2017 By Miyamoto Takashi Note : This article is reprinted with permission from the author. It originally appeared in The Asia-Pacific Journal . Introduction Figure 1: Entrance of the Miyanohara tunnel, the Miike Coal Mine.
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Literature and Culture of the 1890s
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3165
Module code: EN3165 In this module you will explore some of the preoccupations of the Victorian fin de siècle as they are articulated through some of its most famous and infamous literary texts.
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How the application process works
https://le.ac.uk/cls/study/armed-forces/application
Find out how the application process works for the Higher Education Pathway for Armed Forces programme at Leicester.
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Research explores what Google can tell us about the memory web in the brain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-explores-what-google-can-tell-us-about-the-memory-web-in-the-brain
A new study by researchers from the Centre for Systems Neuroscience at our University, in collaboration with the University of California Los Angeles, has helped to untangle ‘the memory web’ by shedding light on how neurons in memory-related areas provide a long-term coding...