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The Dreadful Burning of the City of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/08/the-dreadful-burning-of-the-city-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016 The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events...
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UKs largest ever investment into groundbreaking health research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/uk2019s-largest-ever-investment-into-ground-breaking-health-research
Leicester’s hospitals and the Universities of Leicester and Loughborough are set to receive funding of £11m from the Government to make world-leading medical breakthroughs, as part of a record package of research funding announced today by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
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Pet Shop Boys visit the Orton collection
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-pet-shop-boys
Photo: Phil Fisk|Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, aka Pet Shop Boys, recently visited the Orton Collection at the University of Leicester during a trip to the city to attend a rehearsal of Hanif Kureishi’s play My Beautiful Laundrette at Curve, for which they wrote new music.
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Learn some showstopper science with Bake Off stars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/josh-webinar
Dr Josh Smalley is joined by 2022 Great British Bake Off winner Dr Syabira Yusoff for an online event on 11 February that will explore the science behind their bakes
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Citizens of Change celebrate life-changing achievements online
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/graduation-celebration
IQiUjIbODDE|When starting their degrees at the University of Leicester, no student could have predicted that their 2020 graduation ceremony would have to be postponed because of a pandemic.
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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.
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New theory claims pterodactyls did not have feathers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/pterosaurs
The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper from the University of Leicester refuting claims that feathers were found on dinosaurs’ close relative, the flying reptiles called pterosaurs.
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Study finds women experiencing delay in labour are willing to forsake their own birth plans
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/study-finds-women-experiencing-delay-in-labour-are-willing-to-forsake-their-own-birth-plans
A new study of women’s experiences of delay in labour has revealed that many mums-to-be are prepared to abandon their antenatal plans for how they wanted their labours and births to be.
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Leading microbiologist gives public lecture on bacteriophages
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/leading-microbiologist-to-give-free-public-lecture-on-bacteriophages
Naked Scientists podcast interview with professor Clokie now available University staff and students can watch the lecture here Professor Martha Clokie (pictured) in our Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation will give her inaugural lecture,...
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Space power: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Shock Test Success
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/rtg-shock-test
The University of Leicester 's Space Nuclear Power group has put their Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator through a shock test to prepare it for the harsh environment of a launch or planetary surface landing