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Becoming the Historical Researcher
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2500
Module code: HS2500 (double module) This module will help you to consider simple questions about historical research like, what is it for? What role does historical research play in the world? It will get you to think about how to approach your future research with an open...
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The History of Alcohol in North America, 1650-1950
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2359
Module code: HS2359 This module surveys the social and cultural history of drinking in modern American society, and considers how the historical and cross-cultural study of drinking can add to contemporary debates surrounding alcohol consumption.
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Becoming the Historical Researcher
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2502
Module code: HS2502 This module will help you to consider simple questions about historical research like, what is it for? What role does historical research play in the world? It will get you to think about how to approach your future research with an open mind, both in...
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Spring seminar series 2016
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2016
Browse our 2016 spring seminar series in the Victorian Studies Centre.
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People
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/about/people
Get more information on the people who work within the East Midlands Oral History Archive.
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Differences between larks and owls clocked by geneticists
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/differences-between-larks-and-owls-clocked-by-geneticists
A new study by researchers from the Department of Genetics has for the first time identified the genetic clues behind what makes you a ‘lark’ or an ‘owl’.
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University to honour distinguished individuals in celebratory year for Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/university-to-honour-distinguished-individuals-in-celebratory-year-for-leicester
In a year that has seen the city of Leicester make headlines for its unprecedented sporting achievements, our University will be celebrating the achievements of others linked with the city and the surrounding area who have excelled in their own fields at our graduation...
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Celebrating 35 years of DNA fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-celebrating-35-years-of-dna-fingerprinting
A brand new interview with Sir Alec Jeffreys IW2oSGB-MaE|At 9.05am on Monday 10 September 1984, a discovery in a laboratory at the University of Leicester changed the way criminal investigations were carried out.
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Richard III exhibition to appear for first time in Ireland
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/richard-iii-exhibition-to-appear-for-first-time-in-ireland
The ‘Richard III Discovered’ exhibition, led by Professor Turi King from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, is arriving next week for the first time in Ireland, hosted by NUI Galway as part of the 20th Galway Science and Technology Festival in partnership with...
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Analysing the skeleton
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/analysing-the-skeleton
Analysis of the bones has identified the skeleton as an adult male aged between his late 20s and late 30s; whilst forensic analysis of the bone joints, using standard post-mortem methods, provides a narrower estimate of 30-34 years of age.