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The Conservatives: Ideology, Statecraft and Party Change
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/pl3098
Module code: PL3098 Arguably, the Conservative Party is one of the most successful political parties in the Western world.
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Conference to examine the complex history of immigration
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/conference-to-examine-immigrations-complex-history
Immigration, its causes and its consequences, may be a contentious topic in the 21st century, but it is by no means a new phenomenon.
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The Poetics of Plants in Latin American Literature
https://le.ac.uk/modern-languages/research/poetics-of-plants
An overview of Professor Lesley Wylie's Leverhulme-funded project exploring the poetics of plants in Latin American Literature
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Increased activity during the summer caused by genes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/increased-activity-during-the-summer-caused-by-genes
The warm temperature on a summer’s day is often a time for relaxing, but researchers from the Department of Genetics have suggested that a ‘thermosensory’ gene could be responsible for changes in behaviour in different climates.
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How Muhammad Ali changed the way we see sport
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/how-muhammad-ali-changed-the-way-we-see-sport
Muhammad Ali, who passed away last week at the age of 74, changed the way we see sport and the inequalities that both feed and dramatise it, according to John Williams from the Department of Sociology.
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A concert inspired by the songs of endangered birds
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/a-concert-inspired-by-the-songs-of-endangered-birds
The Attenborough Arts Centre has commissioned a new concert ‘The Red Species List’, to respond to the current exhibition by internationally acclaimed artists Lucy + Jorge Orta, whose artwork questions the social and ecological sustainability of our planet.
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Changes to the Doctoral College Reading Room
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2023/07/31/changes-to-the-doctoral-college-reading-room/
The Library seeks feedback from research students on changes to the Doctoral College Reading Room.
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The human legacy of American troops in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/the-human-legacy-of-american-troops-in-leicester
The story of American soldiers in Leicester during World War Two is well known, as are the many wartime romances and the story of GI brides who married Americans and left the city at the end of the war.
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The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3688
Module code: HS3688 The kingdom of Northumbria dominated Anglo-Saxon England between the mid-seventh and mid-eighth centuries, in war, politics, art and culture.
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The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3688
Module code: HS3688 The kingdom of Northumbria dominated Anglo-Saxon England between the mid-seventh and mid-eighth centuries, in war, politics, art and culture.