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Lifting: An Easter Custom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/03/21/lifting-and-heaving-an-easter-custom/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on March 21, 2016 Lifting – an Easter Custom from William Hone, The Every-Day Book (London, 1826), vol. 1, p.
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What did we ‘discover’ at our conference on 29 June
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2016/07/07/what-did-we-discover-at-conference-on-29-june/
Posted by Frances Deepwell in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on July 7, 2016 Chairing a successful conference on learning and teaching in my first six months at the University, while I’m still becoming familiar with custom and practice...
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Are museums ‘safe spaces for debate’? Not always…
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/09/06/are-museums-safe-spaces-for-debate-not-always/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on September 6, 2017 I keep hearing people talk about museums being ‘safe spaces for debate’, and this always makes me feel a little uncomfortable.
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Physics & Astronomy: Page 20
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/author/leigh_fletcher/page/20/
Nobel Prize: How Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 7 October 2020 The award of this year’s Nobel prize in physics to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and...
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PREPARDE
https://le.ac.uk/clcr/research-projects/preparde
Information on the PREPARDE (Peer Review for Publication & Accreditation of Research data in the Earth Sciences) project lead by The University of Leicester.
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Hilberts sixth problem Can physics be axiomatised
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/hilberts-sixth-problem
In 1900, German mathematician David Hilbert published a set of 23 problems that he felt would further the disciplines of mathematics. All unsolved at the time, the problems influenced the work of mathematicians throughout the 20th century.
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Theory in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2029
Module code: AR2029 What kinds of critical tools are out there to help us understand the past? What was gender like in the past? How are politics and the past entwined? How was the past different from the present? How does archaeology make us think...
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Archaeology: The Essentials
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1007
Module code: AR1007 What is an archaeologist? Where does the discipline of Archaeology come from and how is it organised? What techniques do we use to identify traces of past social life? How do we recover those traces through survey and excavation? How...
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Archaeology of Religion and Belief
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar3605
Module code: AR3605 Religion, belief, and ritual are important aspects of the human experience and pose exciting philosophical and methodological challenges which get to the heart of our discipline.
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Material Centre at CONEXS 2022 in Newcastle, 30th March to 1st April.
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/material-centre-at-conexs
The Collaborative Network for X-ray Spectroscopy (CONEXS) aims to establish a UK community for X-ray spectroscopy, focusing on nurturing the synergy between experiment and theory.