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  • UN space threats group to hear from University of Leicester expert

    The United Nations is to hear from a University of Leicester expert on space politics on how to regulate military activity in space.

  • Budgets: historic documents

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 In light of the spring statement here are some examples of documents from the LSE Digital Library: 1907 Budget poster https://digital.library.lse.ac.

  • Media in the Age of Cybersurveillance

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2015 What is the nature, extent and impact of Internet surveillance on journalism?  This question is considered in a new report Watching the watchdogs just released by CIMA (Center for...

  • The Story of Pulque Part 2: A Tangle of Origins – University of Leicester

    Overview of different pre-Columbian narratives about the origins or discovery of pulque, and the various political, historical, and cultural roles these narratives served particularly for the Mexica (Aztecs)

  • Cooking Inauthentically Part 2: An Experiment with Acarajé – University of Leicester

    Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of making acarajé, the perils of taking shortcuts and the value of traditional recipes

  • Professor David Bradshaw, 1955-2016

    Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on September 15, 2016 The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project is deeply sad to announce the untimely passing of our Co-Investigator, David Bradshaw. David had been ill with cancer for some months.

  • Checklist for new students

    Tick off the things you need to do before arriving to start your degree at the University of Leicester.

  • Geneticist in major project to breed new varieties of wheat

    Our University has been included in one of three high-value, long-term research projects totalling £13.9M that have been awarded funding by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

  • Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century

    Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.

  • Leicester staff celebrate victory for the blues

    Not content with showing their true-blue colours in advance of Leicester City Football club’s arguably season-clinching game on Sunday, our staff are celebrating the local football heroes’ confirmed Premier League victory on Monday in a variety of ways.

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