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Latinx Literature and Culture in the United States
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/sp2070
Module code: SP2070 This module’s main focus will be a selection of writings by Latina/o Caribbean authors – that is, authors whose origins lie in the Hispanic Caribbean but who were born in the United States – as the primary material through which to explore socio-political,...
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The University’s History Told in Pictures
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/29/the-universitys-history-told-in-pictures/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on October 29, 2015 By Rebecca Couchman-Crook , Archives Assistant The photograph collection from the University of Leicester’s history is now more accessible than ever before! You can view them from the comfort of...
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Use genetic data to predict the best time of day to give radiotherapy to breast cancer patients, say Researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/15-radiotherapy-breast-cancer
A new clinical study conducted in the HOPE clinical trials facility at Leicester’s Hospitals has revealed the pivotal role that changing the time of day that a patient receives radiotherapy could play in altering radiotherapy toxicity.
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Conference to examine the complex history of immigration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/conference-to-examine-immigrations-complex-history
Immigration, its causes and its consequences, may be a contentious topic in the 21st century, but it is by no means a new phenomenon.
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The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature
https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages/research/poetics-of-plants
An overview of Professor Lesley Wylie's Leverhulme-funded project exploring the poetics of plants in Latin American Literature
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Increased activity during the summer caused by genes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/increased-activity-during-the-summer-caused-by-genes
The warm temperature on a summer’s day is often a time for relaxing, but researchers from the Department of Genetics have suggested that a ‘thermosensory’ gene could be responsible for changes in behaviour in different climates.
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How Muhammad Ali changed the way we see sport
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/how-muhammad-ali-changed-the-way-we-see-sport
Muhammad Ali, who passed away last week at the age of 74, changed the way we see sport and the inequalities that both feed and dramatise it, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.
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A concert inspired by the songs of endangered birds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/a-concert-inspired-by-the-songs-of-endangered-birds
The Attenborough Arts Centre has commissioned a new concert ‘The Red Species List’, to respond to the current exhibition by internationally acclaimed artists Lucy + Jorge Orta, whose artwork questions the social and ecological sustainability of our planet.
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The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3688
Module code: HS3688 The kingdom of Northumbria dominated Anglo-Saxon England between the mid-seventh and mid-eighth centuries, in war, politics, art and culture.
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The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3688
Module code: HS3688 The kingdom of Northumbria dominated Anglo-Saxon England between the mid-seventh and mid-eighth centuries, in war, politics, art and culture.