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  • Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/101/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • £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.

  • 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...

  • Genetics study to improve prediction of heart disease recruits 20000th participant

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/genetics-study-to-improve-prediction-of-heart-disease-recruits-20-000th-participant

    A team of researchers from our University and NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit (LCBRU) in conjunction with colleagues from Primary Care and Leicester and Leicestershire CCGs have recruited their 20,000th participant to a landmark genetics study.

  • 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.

  • The Madonna of the pinks

    https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/madonna-of-the-pinks

    RCMG was commissioned to carry out an evaluation of the impact of Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks on young people unfamiliar with art galleries.

  • Major new hate crime study to shape improved support services for victims

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/major-new-hate-crime-study-to-shape-improved-support-services-for-victims

    A major new study to investigate hate crime in the West Midlands and to shape the development of improved support services for victims is being led by our University.

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