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Free comedy theatre show on Victorian mental health treatments
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/04-time-travel-treatment
Audiences are being invited to take a step back into the Victorian Era on Thursday 7 November for a free event at the University of Leicester taking a comical look at the historical diagnosis and treatments for mental health issues.
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Pioneering technique could unlock targeted treatments for cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/hdac-cancer
Leicester researchers have described application of a pioneering chemical technique which could unlock ground-breaking new treatments for cancer and other diseases.
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Was Richard IIIs scoliosis kept a secret until his death
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/was-richard-iiis-scoliosis-kept-a-secret-until-his-death
Last month saw the mortal remains of King Richard III reinterred at Leicester Cathedral, more than two years after University archaeologists discovered his skeleton in a car park in August 2012.
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Collections development strategy (Archives and Special Collections)
https://le.ac.uk/library/about/policies/special-collections-strategy
Introduction The University Library’s Archives and Special Collections contains archives, manuscripts and rare books owned by or loaned to the University of Leicester.
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Transforming space exploration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/transforming-space-exploration
Our University is spearheading the development of new power generation technologies for space exploration as part of a European Space Agency funded programme.
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External Membership Processing
https://le.ac.uk/policies/privacy/library/external-membership-processing
The University Library is part of the University of Leicester. The University of Leicester is the Data Controller for your information.
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How the BBC is using WhatsApp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...
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Celebrating 50 years of knowledge transfer partnerships
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/celebrating-50-years-knowledge-transfer-partnerships
The University of Leicester hosted a KTP@50 event to mark five decades of transformative collaboration between academia and industry through the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme.
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New programme partnership between Leicester and Apollo the first step in transforming global healthcare
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/apollo
A new programme partnership delivered by the University of Leicester and The Apollo University (TAU), part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, is the first official step to strengthen links with India and explore how collaborative education and research programmes can transform...
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Weird Fiction/Weird Film
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/en3035
Module code: EN3035 The first decades of the twentieth century saw rapid upheaval in several disciplines of knowledge: Howard Carter’s excavations in Egypt, Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto, and the work of Freud and Einstein, radically rewrote conceptions of history, space, and...