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  • Study suggests ancient communities resisted farming practices

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/study-suggests-ancient-communities-resisted-farming-practices

    Research involving Leicester researchers has uncovered new evidence of lifestyles thousands of years ago.

  • Garth Smithies Taylor (1896-1916)

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/

    15 October 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the death in action of Lieutenant Garth Smithies Taylor, a name which many staff and students at the University will have unwittingly passed on numerous occasions when entering the Fielding Johnson Building.

  • Archive for November 2024: Page 2

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/11/page/2/

    You are browsing the site archives by date.

  • An interview with Nora Waddington

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/19/an-interview-with-nora-waddington/

    Posted by rwatson in Library Special Collections on December 19, 2016 During the 1980s an oral history project was undertaken by the Leicester Oral history Archive.  These interviews are now held by the East Midlands Oral History Archives at the University of Leicester.

  • Research

    https://le.ac.uk/english/research

    English at Leicester is an internationally-recognised centre of research excellence across a comprehensive range of scholarly activities and chronological periods.

  • A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.

  • 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...

  • Human Rights and LGBTQ+

    https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/human-rights-and-lgbtq

    The work of RCMG has profoundly impacted the thinking and practices of the cultural sector and had significant positive benefits for museum visitors.

  • Collaborations and partnerships

    https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/ceah/collaborations

    American University Beirut, Lebanon Antiquities Department Zanzibar Az-Zaytuna University, Libya British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies (BILNAS), UK Department of Natural and Environmental Resources of Puerto Rico (government ministry,...

  • £6,000 award empowers Leicester’s Black and Mixed Heritage students to embRACE study

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/embrace

    A new award that aims to empower Black and Mixed Heritage students to flourish at the University of Leicester has been established by one of its alumni, inspired by superstar British rapper Stormzy.

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