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Research
https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/research
All academics in the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester are actively engaged in academic research, publishing their work both here in the UK and in the USA. Find out about our research projects.
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Leicester expert’s tale of ancient library makes The Telegraph’s greatest books of 2025 list
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/leicester-expert-tale-ancient-library-telegraph-greatest-books-2025-list
A University of Leicester expert’s book explaining how ancient Mesopotamian knowledge shaped the roots of modern civilisation has been named as one of the Telegraph’s greatest books of 2025.
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Limited tickets left for immersive respiratory virus event at King Power Stadium this summer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/respiratory-king-power-event
An interactive science event turning the home of Leicester City Football Club into a respiratory virus museum has sold out in just five days.
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Resources
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/about/resources
Browse some of the resources available to students and researchers working within the Victorian Studies Centre, including access to special collections within the Library and within the Centres for Urban History and English Local History.
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Preterm birth linked with lower mathematics abilities and less wealth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/preterm-birth-linked-with-lower-math-abilities-and-less-wealth
People who are born premature tend to accumulate less wealth as adults, and a new study suggests that this may be due to lower mathematics abilities.
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Critical Geographies of Environment and Development
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy2411
Module code: GY2411 This module will build on your first year studies on issues of environment, society and globalisation. You'll be examining and analysing how ‘development’ is practised, and the ideas and theories underpinning this.
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Critical Geographies of Environment and Development
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy2411
Module code: GY2411 This module will build on your first year studies on issues of environment, society and globalisation. You'll be examining and analysing how ‘development’ is practised, and the ideas and theories underpinning this.
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Critical Geographies of Environment and Development
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy2411
Module code: GY2411 This module will build on your first year studies on issues of environment, society and globalisation. You'll be examining and analysing how ‘development’ is practised, and the ideas and theories underpinning this.
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Resources
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/resources
Take a look at the Stanley Burton Centre's collection of primary materials, and lists of institutes and organisations relating to the study of the Holocaust and genocide.
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Glorious Debo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/09/29/glorious-debo/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in School of English Blog on September 29, 2014 Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, often referred to as the “last Mitford sister”, has passed away. But Debo, as she was known to friends and family, was an institution in her own right.