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• Rewriting Britain

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3340

  Module code: EN3340 (double module) This module will introduce you to the legacies of Modernism and to a selection of new literatures in English.

• University supporting literacy skills through reading buddies and new books for schools

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/books

  Volunteers from the University of Leicester have donated boxes full of brand-new books to local primary schools. It is part of a wider scheme that sees one hundred school-based volunteers support pupils at Uplands Junior L.E.A.

• Historical directories

  https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/historical-directories

  a digital collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century trade and local directories for family, local and urban historians

• Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy

  The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website. Tor Clark, a former newspaper editor and political journalist and now Associate Professor in Journalism, was interviewed by Politics.

• Doctoral loan

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/other-funding/doctoral-loan

  If you’re applying for a research degree (PhD) at Leicester, then you may be eligible to apply for the new Government-funded Doctoral Loan.

• (In)visible Convict Heritage on Rottnest Island

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/03/16/rottnest-convict-heritage/

  Blog on heritage of convict aboriginal history on Rottnest Island also known as Wadjemup, West Australia

• Jupiter’s aurora – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/27/jupiters-aurora-the-most-powerful-northern-lights-display-in-the-solar-system/

  Posted by Rosie Johnson in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 27, 2016 During Juno’s time at Jupiter, we will have the fantastic opportunity to study the most powerful aurora in the solar system.

• On multi-sited research and mono-sited (nationalist) memory

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/05/26/on-multi-sited-research-and-mono-sited-nationalist-memory/

  Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on May 26, 2015 Addressing convict transportation – the key feature in the Carceral Archipelago project – implies multi-sited research, that is, research in archives located in different places (and countries/continents).

• The case for ‘remain’ in the EU referendum – my view as the director of a €1.5 million European fund

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/06/13/the-case-for-remain-in-the-eu-referendum-my-view-as-the-director-of-a-e1-5-million-european-funded-research-project-in-history/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 13, 2016   At the end of last week, thirteen Nobel prize-winning scientists wrote a letter to the right leaning newspaper The Daily Telegraph , urging Britain to vote ‘remain’ in the forthcoming European Union (EU)...

• ‘Conceptual Experiments’ in Carcerality and Colonialism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/01/16/conceptual-experiments-in-carcerality-and-colonialism/

  Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on January 16, 2017 Preamble : In December, the Carceral Archipelago team – including Clare Anderson, Kellie Moss, Katie Roscoe, Carrie Crockett, Lorainne Paterson, Anna McKay, and Adam Barker – attended the Carceral Geographies...