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Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs1001
Module code: HS1001 What are the major themes and debates surrounding medieval and modern European history from 800-1700? How do popular stereotypes of this period differ from the historical evidence? This module picks apart how Europeans sought to construct and maintain...
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Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs1001
Module code: HS1001 What are the major themes and debates surrounding medieval and modern European history from 800-1700? How do popular stereotypes of this period differ from the historical evidence? This module picks apart how Europeans sought to construct and maintain...
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Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs1001
Module code: HS1001 What are the major themes and debates surrounding medieval and modern European history from 800-1700? How do popular stereotypes of this period differ from the historical evidence? This module picks apart how Europeans sought to construct and maintain...
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Sickness poverty and medical relief in England 1750-1850
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/sickness-poverty-and-medical-relief-in-england
Wellcome Trust Research Grant (£166,595) December 2009 - June 2012 Professor Steve King This project explores the definition, scale and treatment of sickness amongst the dependent poor between the 1750s and 1850s.
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Overcoming Challenges in Strangulation Research
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/01/30/overcoming-challenges-in-strangulation-research/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on January 30, 2024 Harriet Smailes PhD Student Undertaking research in the area of strangulation is vital to better understanding the nature and extent of these acts.
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Fellowships to support the creative economy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/fellowships-to-support-the-creative-economy
Two AHRC Fellowships awarded to the University are to be undertaken in partnership with The Museums Association and Phoenix - Leicester’s centre for independent cinema, art and digital culture.
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Millions of records from UK collections to be unlocked by new Museum Data Service
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/museums-data-service
Three-way partnership between Art UK, Collections Trust and the University of Leicester will build real world digital infrastructure to transform the way museums share their object records and knowledge.
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Never too late to learn what motivates mature students to return to learning
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/january/never-too-late-to-learn-what-motivates-mature-students-to-return-to-learning
A new project has been awarded funding from the College of Social Science Research Development Fund to investigate the motivations and outcomes for mature students who study at undergraduate level part-time.
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Free online course offers insights into the time of Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/free-online-course-offers-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii
As the first anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.
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Plantagenet portraits in the 15th and 16th centuries: contemporary contexts for the image of Richard III, 29 May 2018
https://le.ac.uk/medieval/events/archive/public-lectures/plantagenet-portraits
This lecture examined the surviving images of Richard III, in the context of the portraiture of his Plantagenet predecessors, both the tombs, manuscript illuminations and heraldic signifiers of identity that they created during their reigns, and the shaping and repurposing of...