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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.

• 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...

• Health outcomes of ethnic minorities living in cities explored in national report

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/ethnic-health

  Leading professors from the University of Leicester and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities in London have provided key recommendations in the Chief Medical Officer’s (CMO) annual report to enhance care for ethnic minority populations living in cities

• How much comfort can you get from a chocolate bar

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/how-much-comfort-can-you-get-from-a-chocolate-bar

  Chocolate is often the go-to food when people are in need of a pick-me-up, providing consumers with a comforting experience that lifts the mood.

• Top employers target Leicester's graduate high-fliers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/25-top-employers-target-leicester-graduate-high-fliers

  Leicester ranked among top 25 UK universities targeted by leading employers. The UK’s 100 best-known graduate employers are targeting students from the University of Leicester according to a major new report on the graduate job market.

• Diverse range of events taking place at the University of Leicester to celebrate Black History Month 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-black-history-month

  Mental health discussions, student-led initiatives and Leicester’s hidden Black history among events marking Black History Month in the UK

• 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.

• Why do we still love James Bond

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/why-do-we-still-love-james-bond

  On Monday 26 October, another new James Bond movie will hit our cinema screens and the publicity machinery seems to be in overdrive. Spectre is the twenty-fourth in the continuous film series based on Ian Fleming’s British superspy and is produced by Eon Productions for MGM/Sony.

• University celebrates LGBT History Month

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/university-celebrates-lgbt-history-month

  LGBT+ History Month is being marked at our University with a myriad of events from 12 to 28 February. The University has been rated as one of the top 100 employers in Stonewall’s Workplace index.

• Link between hibernation in animals and Alzheimers prevention identified

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/link-between-hibernation-in-animals-and-alzheimers-prevention-identified

  Research by scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Toxicology Unit, based at the University, has identified a protective mechanism that kicks in when body temperature is lowered, activating a process that prevents the loss of brain cells and the connections between them.