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Summertime, and the Gibbeting ain’t Easy… By Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/06/20/summertime-gibbet/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on June 20, 2016 Today is officially the first day of summer, and I welcome the season this year particularly grateful for something that this time last year hadn’t even crossed my mind.
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We have a distinguished record of innovation and excellence in interdisciplinary research and teaching at postgraduate level. Find out more about us and read our mission statement.
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Cataloguing photos relating to World War Two and Leicester – A work in progress
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/08/14/cataloguing-photos-relating-to-world-war-two-and-leicester-a-work-in-progress/
Posted by Karin Li in Library and Learning Services on August 14, 2023 The East Midlands Oral History Archive (EMOHA) and The University of Leicester Special Collections have launched a new project, ‘Sounds for the Future’.
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Post-War history exhibition concludes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/post-war-history-exhibition-concludes
The Oral History of Post-War Leicester 1945-1962 project is coming to an end and has marked this with an afternoon exhibition at the Newarke Houses Museum in Leicester.
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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
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Hate crime victims being let down by the police
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/hate-crime-victims-being-2018let-down2019-by-the-police
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has published a new inspection report which reveals widespread problems with how the police deal with hate incidents and crimes.
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Breaking the ice
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/17/breaking-the-ice/
Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on September 17, 2013 Welcome to the School of English blog! My hope is that this becomes a way of communicating with each other, with our students, with the wider university and with the outside world about the whole range of...
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Mapping the future of University of Leicester’s iconic Engineering Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-getty-foundation-grant
Stirling and Gowan-designed building among ten new grants from Getty Foundation’s 2018 Keeping It Modern programme
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The fight for minority rights in the United States to be explored at event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/the-fight-for-minority-rights-forms-2018a-continuous-thread-of-american-history2019-1
Issues of racism - from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s up until today - and how the ongoing fight for minority rights has formed a ‘continual and continuous thread of American history’ will be discussed at an upcoming ‘Remembering Rosa Parks’ event on...
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Food Stories – the afterlife of a research project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2017/11/24/food-stories-the-afterlife-of-a-research-project/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on November 24, 2017 It’s obviously been quite a while since this blog was updated, but that doesn’t mean we have forgotten about Consuming Authenticities! In fact, plenty of exciting developments have been quietly happening...