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Archive of past events and conferences
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/news/past-events
Browse our archive of past events and conferences in the Centre for English Local History at Leicester, with records spanning back to 2008.
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Kinchega Archaeological Research Project
https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/people-and-places/kinchega-archaeological-research-project
Project page for the University of Leicester's Kinchega Archaeological Research Project
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People
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/wellcome-trust-dtp/people
Programme leadership team Martin Tobin Programme Director and Theme 2 Lead As the first person in my family to go to university, I found Leicester Medical School to be a diverse, welcoming and caring environment.
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Monster planet discovery offers new insights into planet formation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/2018monster2019-planet-discovery-offers-new-insights-into-planet-formation
A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, including researchers from our Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Research reveals earliest evidence yet of huge hippos in Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/hippo-fossil
Neil Adams, PhD researcher in the Centre for Palaeobiology Research at the University of Leicester and Earth Collections Project Officer at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, said: “It was very exciting to come across a hippo tooth during our recent excavations...
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Pioneering police detective David Baker awarded Honorary Degree
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/david-baker
The lead detective on the first criminal case to be solved using DNA fingerprinting has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Leicester at a ceremony today (Wednesday 19 January).
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Beatrix Potter – 150th Anniversary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/28/beatrix-potter-150th-anniversary/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 28, 2016 Iconic fictional characters of childhood can be attributed to the creativity of Beatrix Potter, author and illustrator of the late 19 th – early 20 th century.
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Doctor who’s helped thousands of children in poverty was set on the right path by Leicester Medical School
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/doctor-helped-thousands-children-poverty-leicester-medical-school
A doctor who has improved the lives of thousands of children in desperate poverty has put part of her success down to her time at the University of Leicester’s Medical School.
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He answered his emails instantly – What an Epitaph.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/04/11/he-answered-his-emails-instantly-what-an-epitaph/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on April 11, 2019 Back in August I published Blog Post titled “When you’re working you’re working”.
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The Public Voice of Women
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/16/the-public-voice-of-women/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2014 The Public Voice of Women Read the transcript or listen to the podcast of the London Review of Books lecture by academic Mary Beard delivered in March 2014.