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Urban Conservation MA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/urban-conservation-ma/2026
This is for you if... you want to increase your historical knowledge of cities, conservation and heritage and apply your learning in a practical setting.
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Frank, the Double Duchesse
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/11/08/frank-the-double-duchesse/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on November 8, 2016 Amongst the contents of the Fairclough Collection of engraved portraits, relating to political and social history in 17 th century Britain, we have recently discovered this delicately executed...
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Are children in the UK exposed to online pornography?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/are-children-in-the-uk-exposed-to-online-pornography/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 And if so, what impact does it have on their lives and relationships? The NSPCC and the Children’s Commissioner asked Middlesex University to conduct a study.
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World Digital Preservation Day 2022 blog
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2022/10/19/world-digital-preservation-day-2022/
Blog post describing the work done at the University of Leicester to increase ability and capacity for permanent preservation of born-digital material (websites, Sharepoint sites, email and word and pdf documents).
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Careers in Creative Industries: Media and Design, Journalism, Museum and Archaeological Studies
https://le.ac.uk/career-development-service/recruitment-fairs/employment-sector/creative-industries
Design Engineer Ergonomist Games Developer Graphic Designer Product Designer UI Designer User Experience (UX) Designer UX Analyst / User Researcher Exhibition Designer Furniture Designer...
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The schoolboy sketches of John Leech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...
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Centre for Critical and Creative Geographies
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/critical-creative-geographies
Our research in the Centre for Critical and Creative Geographies employs creative methods to recognise people's affective engagements with space, place and environments, and how these connect to political governance and contestations.
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Project connecting digitally catalogued collections in UK museums receives three years’ funding worth £800,000
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/digitally-catalogued-collections-uk-museums-funding
Joint venture between the University of Leicester, Art UK and Collections Trust supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council aims to ultimately collect data for 100 million object records
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Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells
A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.
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Glossary of Terms
https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/about/heart-surgery/national-cardiac-surgery-clinical-trials-programme/infection-prevention/glossary-of-terms
Glossary of terms explains unfamiliar terms used within context of page