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• The hosiery industry

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/the-hosiery-industry

  Leicester is famous for its garment factories and has a rich history of work within the hosiery industry. Learn more about this history, including working hours, apprenticeships and the industry's migrant workforce.

• Two upcoming readings

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/10/16/two-upcoming-readings/

  Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on October 16, 2014 In the next few days, I’ll be taking part in two public events, at Nottingham Festival of Words, and at the London launch of a unique book of essays.

• Winning Poem Published by NASA-Chandra

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2016/02/04/winning-poem-published-by-nasa-chandra/

  Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on February 4, 2016 Illustration Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J.

• Scientists investigating the causes of dementia have found key similarities between different diseases, paving the way for effective new diagnostics and treatment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/alzheimers

  Experts looking into conditions including Alzheimers, Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies have found there are similar processes and biomarkers that link them

• Academics contribute to major project celebrating 80 years of British TV

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/academics-contribute-to-major-project-celebrating-80-years-of-british-tv

  Professor Helen Wood and Dr Jilly Boyce Kay from the School  of Media, Communication and Sociology have contributed to BBC History’s new archive to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the launch of the first British television service by the BBC.

• Angela Monckton BSc MCIfA

  https://le.ac.uk/ulas/about/our-team/angela-monckton

  Learn more about our Consultant (Environmental Archaeologist) of ULAS, Angela Monckton.

• 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2025

  2025 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians The Purloined Heart: Intertextuality Between Dickens and Poe 19 February Speaker: Dr Katie Bell (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester) Online Victorian Statumania: Poets and Public Monuments 26...

• A festive flying pterosaur family reunion 150 million years in the making

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/december/pterosaur-reunion

  University of Leicester study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur

• University of Leicester staff blogs School of English Centre for New Writing hosts AHRC-funded Event

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/26/centre-for-new-writing-hosts-ahrc-funded-event-on-dalit-literature/

  Dalit Literature Ajay Navaria Centre for New Writing

• Library and Learning Services: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

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

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester