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• Dancing With Strangers: Body and Otherness in the Experience of Citizenship

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/performingcitizenship/2015/12/15/dancing-with-strangers-body-and-otherness-in-the-experience-of-citizenship-by-rita-marcalo/

  Posted by Maria Rovisco in Performing Citizenship on December 15, 2015 This post is authored by Rita Marcalo, dancer, choreographer and Artistic Director of Instant Dissidence , as a response to the Workshop ‘Arts and Citizenship’ held at the Department of Media and...

• Being Disturbingly Informative. By Shane McCorristine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/10/31/disturbingly-informative/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 31, 2016   Last year I visited a fine old building nestled incongruously close to the skyscrapers and busy financial offices of Market Street in downtown Philadelphia.

•  Liberating history testimonials

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/09/20/liberating-history-testimonials/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 20, 2024 This website  was created by the Liberating Histories research team which is supported by Northumbria University, Arts and Humanities Research Council, The LSE Women’s Library...

• Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/44/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Andrew Dunn: Page 44

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/author/andrew_dunn/page/44/

  Academic Librarian.

• Sami Zubaida

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida

  We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.

• Surnames and the Y chromosome

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/the-impact-of-diasporas-on-the-making-of-britain/the-diasporas-projects/surnames-and-the-y-chromosome

  Dr Turi E King, Research Fellow and Project Manager of the Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain. Lead researcher on 'The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England' project. Research Fellow: Dr Turi King  In Britain, we have heritable surnames.

• Free public open day at Bradgate Park

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/free-public-open-day-at-bradgate-park

  Members of the public are invited to learn about the latest archaeological discoveries being made by the University of Leicester’s Archaeology Fieldschool at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire, during a FREE family Open Day on Sunday 2 July between 11.00am – 4.00pm.

• Leicester alumni return ‘home’ for Centenary celebration

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/alumni-celebration

  Guests were later treated to a keynote by guest speaker Grayson Perry CBE, who captivated the audience during an entertaining speech about his life as a celebrated visual artist and his connection to education.

• Postgraduate researchers win prestigious policy internships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/postgraduate-researchers-win-prestigious-policy-internships

  Two Leicester postgraduate researchers have been selected for prestigious internships that will see them assist with briefings to Parliament on science policy issues.