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• Geology researchers participate in Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society events

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/geology-professors-participate-in-leicester-literary-and-philosophical-society-events

  Founded in 1835, The Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society predates the University by over a century, yet it was an integral catalyst in the formation of the University of Leicester and much of our histories are entwined.

• Partnerships

  https://le.ac.uk/dickens-code/about/partnerships

  Find out more about our partners for 'The Dickens Code.' Including: the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Charles Dickens Museum and the Free Library of Philadelphia.

• Primary materials

  https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/resources/materials

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

• Events

  https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events

  We organise regular research seminars and conferences and host visiting speakers. Learn more about some of our recent events in the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies.

• Free online course to tackle ethically unsound research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/free-online-course-to-tackle-ethically-unsound-research

  A free online course offered by our University and aimed at aspiring academics hopes to help tackle issues surrounding ethically unsound research.

• DNA and family history explored in public lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/dna-and-family-history-explored-in-public-lecture

  The Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society will host a lecture on the relationship between surnames and the paternally-inherited Y chromosome from Professor Mark Jobling on Monday 6 March.

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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-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.

• Smallpox in Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/05/05/smallpox-in-leicester/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 5, 2015 ‘The Wyvern Smiles’ from ‘The Wyvern’, (Leicester, 20 November 1891).

• Sarah Wood

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/author/sarah_wood/

  Assistant Archivist

• Glenfield’s Judith is first UK participant in women-only heart surgery study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/march/heart-surgery-iwd

  The first patient in the UK to take part in a women-only cardiac surgery research trial underwent a life-changing heart operation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust recently.