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Thinking Through Things
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar1012
Module code: AR1012 This module challenges the stereotype of archaeology as the study of ancient, dusty and rather irrelevant things in the past.
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Thinking Through Things
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar1012
Module code: AR1012 This module challenges the stereotype of archaeology as the study of ancient, dusty and rather irrelevant things in the past.
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Thinking Through Things
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1012
Module code: AR1012 This module challenges the stereotype of archaeology as the study of ancient, dusty and rather irrelevant things in the past.
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Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/anthropocene-berlin
Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our planet – have announced a major step in their analysis at an international conference today (Wednesday).
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Researchers develop pioneering X-ray technique to analyse ancient artefacts
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/researchers-develop-pioneering-x-ray-technique-to-analyse-ancient-artefacts
A pioneering X-ray technique that can analyse artefacts of any shape or texture in a non-destructive way has been developed by an international team of researchers led by our University.
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Awards and collaborations
https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/material-worlds-past-present/awards-collaborations
Find out about recent and current collaborations undertaken by the Centre for Material Worlds Past and Present
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Leicester City Council
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/about/partners/leicester-city-council
Leicester City Council provides support to the East Midlands Oral History Archive with access to edited material through their museums and library services. Learn more.
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Free online course offers unique insights into the time of Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/free-online-course-offers-unique-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii
As the second anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course that explores what it was really like to live in the world of the last Plantagenet King.
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University of Leicester archaeologists identify ancient Stonehenge gold digging kit
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/gold
University of Leicester archaeologists have identified a 4000-year-old gold working tool kit amongst the grave goods from an important Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge.
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Beautiful and Artistic – Marbled Endpapers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/06/30/beautiful-and-artistic-marbled-endpapers/
Posted by Karin Li in Library and Learning Services on June 30, 2023 During my time here in Archives and Special Collections I want to highlight something I have found interesting – the distinct patterns found in some rare books.