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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Adrian Mole material exhibited alongside new musical adaptation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/adrian-mole-material-exhibited-alongside-new-musical-adaptation
The world premiere of Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ The Musical by Leicester’s Curve Theatre will be accompanied by an exhibition of previously unseen material from the University's Special Collections.
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Reflections on my Professional Fellowship: Part One
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/10/11/reflections-on-my-professional-fellowship-part-one/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on October 11, 2024 My name is Sarah Wood and I work as the Assistant Archivist for the University of Leicester.
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PARCA-R
https://le.ac.uk/parca-r
Find out more about Parent Report of Children's Abilities (PARCA-R) at the University of Leicester.
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Stephen Wood
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/stephen_wood/
Professor of Management
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Alumna takes presenter role on BBC current affairs programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/alumna-takes-presenter-role-on-bbc-current-affairs-programme
A Leicester geography graduate is to helm the BBC’s Inside Out East Midlands current affairs programme. Lukwesa Burak presented her first edition of the programme on Monday 5 September, which was a Brexit special focusing on the impact on the East Midlands.
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Professor Ryder and the Materials Group awarded European Commission H2020 research grant
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/professor-ryder-and-the-materials-group-awarded-european-commission-h2020-research-grant
The University of Leicester Materials and Interfaces group has been awarded a new European Commission Horizon 2020 research grant for the project ‘A Marketable Polymer based Al-S battery’ (AMAPOLA).
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Leicester scientist wins prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry award
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-scientist-wins-prestigious-royal-society-of-chemistry-award
A researcher from the University's College of Medicine has been announced as the winner of the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry Toxicology Award for 2017.
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Image gallery of the Attenboroughs at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/image-gallery
View the University of Leicester’s image gallery of Sir David Attenborough, Lord Richard Attenborough and Michael Attenborough OBE plus archive of Frederick Attenborough’s time at the University.
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Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/zooniverse
Astronomers have launched a new online initiative, calling for volunteers to come forward and help to search for planets beyond our Solar System.