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Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching: Academic and staff blogs from the Uni
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/page/6/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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A Promising Future: Convict Voyages to Western Australia by Kellie Moss
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/10/06/a-promising-future-convict-voyages-to-western-australia-by-kellie-moss/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 6, 2014 During a recent research trip to the State Library of Western Australia I had the opportunity to examine the journal compiled by William Smith, Surgeon Superintendent, on board the Merchantman’s second...
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The curse of zombie fossils
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-curse-of-zombie-fossils
New research has revealed how the history of life can be distorted by the ways animals decompose and lose body parts as they decay - and the ways in which decayed bodies ultimately become fossilised.
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Observing Jupiter’s auroras with Hubble
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/30/observing-jupiters-auroras-with-hubble/
Posted by Jonathan Nichols in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 30, 2016 Unfortunately, they don’t let you take observing trips to the Hubble Space Telescope; perhaps the only downside to using the veteran observatory.
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Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-cathedral-ulas
Preliminary investigations took place in late 2021, with the ULAS team carefully uncovering more than 120 burials in the top-most layers on the site. The area was once used as the churchyard for burials of people from all walks of life living in the surrounding parish.
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Publicspirited officials can make a difference to Grenfell Tower public inquiry says security expert
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/public-spirited-officials-can-make-a-difference-to-grenfell-tower-public-inquiry-says-security-expert
A University of Leicester expert in security and disaster management has welcomed the Government’s announcement of a public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, arguing that history has shown that public-spirited officials can be successful in holding those responsible to...
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Do we face a DisUnited Kingdom
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/do-we-face-a-dis-united-kingdom
Politics experts from the Department of Politics and International Relations will be holding a free public ‘Question Time’-like roundtable discussion on the future of British politics in the wake of the 2015 General Election results on Thursday 14 May.
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Conceptualising Islands in History: Considering Bermuda and Gibraltar’s Prison Hulks
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/08/conceptualising-islands-in-history-considering-bermuda-and-gibraltars-prison-hulks/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on March 8, 2016 By Anna McKay, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Student, National Maritime Museum & University of Leicester.
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Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/22/witnesses-wives-politicians-soldiers-the-women-of-waterloo/
Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 22, 2015 Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo By Katherine Astbury Associate Professor and Reader of French at University of Warwick Visit The Last Stand: Napoleon’s 100 Days in 100 Objects: www.
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Arabic Post-beginners (Level 2)
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/arabic/level-2
Arabic course for post-beginners at Leicester University