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  • ‘Permissible Beauty’ – New immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace will explore changing notions of beauty through history

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/permissible-beauty

    Why are some forms of beauty more permissible, more highly valued, than others? A new immersive installation at Hampton Court Palace will bring past and present together to explore this question and to celebrate a new chapter of British Beauty for the 21st century.

  • Genetics and early British population history

    https://le.ac.uk/impact-of-diasporas/projects/genetics-and-early-british-population-history

    Academic advisors: Professor Simon James, Professor Mark Jobling, Dr Turi King Research Associate: Dr Jon Wetton Published studies of the genetic diversity of the peoples of Britain have so far focused on uniparentally-inherited markers.

  • Religious History

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2232

    Module code: HS2232 Why have states been so concerned with the control and regulation of religion? How has religious persecution been justified? How has the secular state been theorised, and what happens in practice? This module considers Religious History as a way of...

  • Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2311

    Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...

  • Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2311

    Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...

  • Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2311

    Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...

  • Gala premiere for feature film shot on University campus

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/gala-premiere-for-feature-film-shot-on-university-campus

    A locally produced movie which includes a scene filmed at the University of Leicester received its premiere last Saturday at Phoenix Arts. The Wrong Floor, directed by Marc Hamill from Coalville, is an homage to 1980s straight-to-video action/horror movies.

  • Suggested reading for Film Studies students

    https://le.ac.uk/film/study/undergraduate/suggested-reading-for-film-studies-students

    Keen to get started? This page includes suggestions for texts and films you might explore in preparation for your degree.

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

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/62/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Decolonising the Curriculum: How is black history taught in schools?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/11/29/decolonising-the-curriculum-how-is-black-history-taught-in-schools/

    Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 29, 2018 Angelina Osborne,  on BBC Woman’s hour discussing Olive Morris and her legacy as a black activist. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNInrtwW4AAas0q.

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