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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...

• People

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/people

  Browse our list of academic staff, university fellows and honorary visiting staff and find out how to get in touch via telephone and email.

• Older obese people no longer at higher risk, study shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/july/obesity-heart-attack-stains-cardiovascular

  A new study suggests that older adults (over 40) with obesity now often have blood pressure and cholesterol levels similar to - or sometimes better than - people of a healthy weight.

• Study to help find ways to prevent kidney damage

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/study-to-help-find-ways-to-prevent-kidney-damage

  Leicestershire people set to undergo keyhole vascular surgery are being recruited for a new study to help find ways to prevent kidney damage which can sometimes occur afterwards.

• MA Scholarship Award Holders Announced

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/08/01/ma-scholarship-award-holders-announced/

  Posted by David Revill in School of English Blog on August 1, 2014 Congratulations! to the following four applicants who have each been awarded a  £2000 MA Scholarship : Mariette Cracknell (MA Victorian Studies),Kelsyn Delaney (MA Modern Literature and...

• Case Study - Team Factors

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/executive-education-programmes/help-to-grow-management-programme/case-study---team-factors

  Introduction Team Factors Ltd, based in Hertfordshire, were established in 2010 and provide start-ups, micro companies and SMEs with flexible factoring solutions enabling businesses to receive payment of up to 90% of the value of their invoices immediately.

• The destruction of Old St Paul’s

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/01/the-destruction-of-old-st-pauls/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016 350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with...

• The Belmont House Society and the Founding of the University

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/09/13/the-belmont-house-society-and-the-founding-of-the-university-of-leicester/

  The contribution of the Belmont House Society to the founding of the University of Leicester

• Local research study contributes to global findings which pinpoint genes for depression across ethnicities

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/exceed

  A University of Leicester study has contributed to the world’s largest and most diverse genetic study ever into major depression, helping to reveal nearly 300 previously unknown genetic links to the condition

• Fellowship award will allow Leicester researcher to launch genetic study of lung disease

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/fellowship-leicester-researcher-genetic-lung-disease

  A University of Leicester researcher has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Career Development Fellowship to lead a groundbreaking study into the genomics of bronchiectasis.