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

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Facilities for students

    The School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester occupies its own building at the heart of the University campus. We have a set of recently refurbished and very well-equipped laboratories for in-house scientific archaeology teaching and research.

  • Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.

  • On the staff: the rocking chair years University of Leicester staff blogs

    Posted by Gordon Campbell in School of English Blog on September 17, 2013 In most professions, retirement means stopping work, taking a long holiday, and turning to charitable and leisure pursuits, or possibly to drink.

  • Study reveals how dietary phosphate can increase heart disease risk

    A new study has found that high phosphate levels can cause a stress signal inside the cells that line blood vessels, leading to the release of microparticles that promote the formation of blood clots. Inorganic phosphate is a nutrient in nearly all diets.

  • International seminar tackles the construction of gender sexuality and warfare in history art and literature

    Do questions of gender and sexuality play a significant part in the way wars are waged, mediated and understood? This month, academics from across the world will visit Leicester to explore this question.

  • University of Leicester marks Holocaust Memorial Day

    The University of Leicester will mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday, 27 January with a number of events organised by the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and University of Leicester Students’ Union.

  • Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests

    Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms, study suggests Photograph of a peat field|Leicester scientist part of international study into effects of global warming on peatlands Global warming will cause peatlands to absorb more carbon – but the effect will weaken as...

  • About us

    The University of Leicester has been researching imperial, colonial and global history for the past 50 years, covering multiple areas of the world.

  • Primary materials

    Browse through the list of primary materials the Stanley Burton centre has cultivated; essential to the study of the Holocaust and genocide.

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