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• Poll Books in Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.

• National Civil War Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/national-civil-war-centre

  The Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester and the National Civil War Centre (NCWC) have been working together to transform the public history of the British and Irish Civil Wars since 2012, when Newark Museum began its transformation, with the help...

• Julie Coleman

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/jmc21/

  Head of the School of English and Professor of English Language.

• New website launched to explore the full healthy life in Australia for migrants from the UK and Europe

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/new-website-launched-to-explore-the-2018full-healthy-life2019-in-australia-for-migrants-from-the-uk-and-europe

  Between 1945 and 1975 some three million migrants and refugees arrived in Australia from Britain and Europe. Chosen to be young, strong and healthy workers, they were expected to rapidly integrate and ‘become good Australians by adoption’.

• Collaborative Doctoral Studentships (AHRC and ESRC scholarships)

  https://le.ac.uk/history/study/research-degrees/doctoral-studentships

  History at Leicester has an outstanding track record for winning research studentships under the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral schemes (CDP / CDA). Find out more about our award holders, external partner institutions and academic mentors.

• First study examining pregnancy in the Viking Age: Pregnant women wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers, but also a harsh world where not all newborns were given burial or born free 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/first-study-into-pregnancy-in-viking-age

  A new, interdisciplinary study is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.

• UK First as new NHS study of digital ‘smart inhalers’ for children with asthma starts in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/asthma

  A new study, led by the University of Leicester, exploring the use of Smart Inhalers to prevent asthma flare-ups in children and young people has started in the city.

• “In the past we would just be invisible”

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/we-would-be-invisible

  "In the past we would just be invisible" explored attitudes towards heritage and the past of disabled people who live around Colchester.

• National Trust and University of Leicester launch pioneering film to explore fascinating stories of disability from the Trust’s sites and collections for the first time

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/everywhere-nowhere

  Everywhere and Nowhere is a collaboration between the National Trust and the University of Leicester’s Research Centre for Museums and Galleries The collaboration shines a light on ten fascinating stories of disability from collections and sites in the National...

• Andrew Dunn: Page 140

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/140/

  Academic Librarian.