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  • ‘Strangers in the land’?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/06/08/strangers-in-the-land/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2016 Our current exhibition, ‘”Strangers in the land”? Impressions of India’ traces the history of the British in India from the early 17 th century to the turn of the 20 th .

  • Sherry in the filing-cabinet – and as for the milk-jug …

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/13/sherry-in-the-filing-cabinet-and-as-for-the-milk-jug/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 13, 2016 Our current exhibition from the Special Collections, ‘”Strangers in the Land”? Impressions of India’, explores the attitudes and reactions of the British in India, from the early 17 th century to the...

  • Summer Holidays

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/23/happy-holidays/

    Blog post recalling Summer Holidays taken by people from Leicester and Leicestershire, as recorded in the East Midlands Oral History Archive

  • Sue Townsend’s Fan Mail

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/01/24/sue-townsends-fan-mail/

    Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on January 24, 2019   Guest Post from Helen Ward, Library Assistant in Archives and Special Collections.

  • Global study reveals new hypertension and blood pressure genes

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/global-study-reveals-new-hypertension-and-blood-pressure-genes

    Thirty-one new gene regions linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of blood pressure to date, involving over 347,000 people, and jointly led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge, with...

  • €1.5 million award to study birth of planets

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/erc-starter-grant

    Leicester astrophysics research which seeks to answer fundamental questions about the formation of planets has been awarded a major funding boost by the European Research Council (ERC).

  • Ethnic minority groups underrepresented in long COVID research, study demonstrates

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/covid-minorities

    Leicester academics have highlighted that ethnic minorities are underrepresented in long COVID research.

  • Leicester-led study to explore mental health and drug use in colonial and post-colonial prisons

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-study-mental-health-drug-prisons

    The University of Leicester has been awarded £3.3m to research drugs and mental health in prison settings globally.

  • Leicester study to improve crop plants

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/august/leicester-study-to-improve-crop-plants

    Dr James Higgins (pictured) from the Department of Genetics has been awarded a New Investigator grant (£450,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to investigate meiotic adaptation to whole genome duplication.

  • Breakthrough genetic study points to neurological mechanisms for chronic cough

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/chronic-cough-genetic-leicester

    A new genetic study by scientists at the University of Leicester has identified neurological mechanisms as key drivers of chronic cough

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