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British summer holiday habits of the past explored by Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/british-summer-holiday-habits-of-the-past-explored-by-leicester-researchers
Visiting different countries and traveling the world is a common way people spend their summer holidays - but the historical British summer holiday would have been a much less frequent and far more local affair.
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University supporting Town and Gown 10k run
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/university-supporting-town-and-gown-10k-run
The University of Leicester has declared its support for the new Leicester Town and Gown charity run. The 10k race, organised by charity Muscular Dystrophy UK, is coming to the city for the first time on Sunday 5 March.
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Expert comment UK Government must end uncertainty for Gibraltars people after Brexit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/expert-comment-uk-government-must-end-uncertainty-for-gibraltar2019s-people-after-brexit
University of Leicester academic, Dr Chris Grocott, has called on the Government to provide certainty on their plans for Gibraltar following Brexit.
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New radio plays to celebrate Adrian Moles 50th birthday
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/new-radio-plays-to-celebrate-adrian-moles-50th-birthday
Budding writers are being called upon to help celebrate literary character Adrian Mole's 50th birthday.
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Film screening to explore post-prison lives of wrongly convicted individuals
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/film-screening-to-explore-post-prison-lives-of-wrongly-convicted-individuals
For its inaugural screening Reel Law, Leicester Law School’s film club, is holding a free public screening of BBC documentary ‘Fallout’ and a panel discussion with the film’s director and two of the featured exonerated prisoners.
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University historian drives successful campaign for Leicestershire flag
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/leicestershire-flag
Professor Shipley formed the idea of establishing a flag for Leicestershire in 2014, when he noticed that around half of England’s 39 historic counties had adopted flags in the previous decade or so, and that soon Leicestershire would be one of the few without one.
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Digitising oral history recordings
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/how-to-do-oral-history/community-resources/digitising
With analogue becoming more of a thing of the past, learn more about recording and keeping digital copies of oral history materials.
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Here for you
https://le.ac.uk/chaplaincy/about-us
Learn more about the Chaplaincy team at the University of Leicester.
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Margaret Byron
https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/margaret-byron
Margaret has held full-time teaching posts in Higher Education for almost 30 years, teaching Geography at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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2023 Autumn Seminar Series
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/seminar-series/2023-autumn-seminar-series
Autumn 2023 Seminar Series for the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Leicester