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Royal connections link University to city
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/royal/connections
Find out more about the many links that have been forged between the University and the Royal Family.
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Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Science and Engineering
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/senior-management/executive-board/pvc-and-head-of-college-cse
Find out more about our Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Science and Engineering.
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International Transgender Day of Remembrance
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2017/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on November 20, 2017 Each year in November, we are reminded of our University’s motto, Ut Vitam Habeant – That They May Have Life.
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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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The Habitable City
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-habitable-city
British Academy Grant (£29,680) October 2012 - September 2015 Dr Toby Lincoln With fifty percent of China’s population living in cities, the world’s most populous nation is now its newest urban society.
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The Habitable City
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/research/the-habitable-city
The University of Leicester's Leverhulme Trust Research Grant for the Habitable City project.
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Extensive freshened water beneath the ocean floor confirmed for the first time
https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/february/freshened-water-ocean-floor-confirmed
International team including University of Leicester geoscientists provides first detailed evidence of long-suspected hidden fresh water aquifers, following an expedition off the coast of New England in 2025
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Leicester PhD graduates debut novel among most anticipated books of 2017
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-phd-graduate2019s-debut-novel-among-most-anticipated-books-of-2017
Leicester PhD graduate Dr Sabyn Javeri’s debut novel, Nobody Killed Her, has been included as one of the Huffington Post India’s most anticipated books of 2017.
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MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 1-2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/07/23/ma-museum-studies-placement-in-special-collections-weeks-1-2/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 23, 2018 Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team.
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We are Citizens of Change
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/24-we-are-citizens-of-change
prsrA2paH7s|Today sees the launch of our new identity – Citizens of Change. It builds on the University of Leicester’s heritage whilst looking to the future and supporting our mission, vision and new strategic plan.