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Leicester PhD student publishes book on traditional British ballads
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/leicester-phd-student-publishes-book-on-traditional-british-ballads
PhD student Kevan Manwaring from our School of Arts is publishing a new book based on his Creative Writing PhD research which will appeal to people passionate about folk music and storytelling.
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Figures from University feature on King Richard III Pall
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/figures-from-university-feature-on-king-richard-iii-pall
Figures from the University of Leicester feature on the pall that covered the coffin of King Richard III. The embroidered funeral pall was revealed at a reception service for the monarch at Leicester Cathedral on 22 March.
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Archaeologists create 3D interactive digital reconstruction of King Richard IIIs grave found under a car park
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/archaeologists-create-3d-interactive-digital-reconstruction-of-king-richard-iii2019s-grave-found-under-a-car-park
Archaeologists who discovered and helped to identify the mortal remains of King Richard III have created a 3D interactive representation of the grave and the skeleton of the king under the car park.
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Eddie Izzard brings Stand up for Europe campaign to campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/eddie-izzard-brings-stand-up-for-europe-campaign-to-campus
This event has been cancelled. See here for information. Eddie Izzard today (Monday 23rd May) kicked off a new campaign to visit 31 cities in the next 31 days in a bid to get young people to register for the referendum and vote to stay in Europe.
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Prestigious Japanese documentary features Leicester researchers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-nhk-documentary-genomics
Japanese broadcaster NHK will feature the University of Leicester in a documentary show ‘NHK Special’, which will focus on developments in genomics. The documentary will air on Sunday 5 May, with the show attracting audiences in Japan in excess of 10 million people.
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Community Collaboration at Kettles Yard
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/community-collaboration-at-kettles-yard
Molly Stock-Duerdoth, MA in Museum Studies (Currently Learning and Engagement Coordinator, Glyndebourne Opera House.) Over the summer, I was lucky enough to have undertaken my placement as Community CoLAB Assistant Curator at Kettle’s Yard.
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Melanie Hammond
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/melanie-hammond
We have learned, with regret, of the death of Melanie Hammond, a much-loved team member of initially External Relations and subsequently the Business School.
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Liz Hockey
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/liz-hockey
We are sad to announce that Liz Hockey, Communication Officer within Estates, passed away on 12 May 2020 after a battle with cancer.
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Experts gathered to explore a potentially revolutionary method of diagnosing heart and lung disease from a patients breath sample
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/experts-gathered-to-explore-a-potentially-revolutionary-method-of-diagnosing-heart-and-lung-disease-from-a-patient2019s-breath-sample
On 1 November, the EMBER (East Midlands Breathomics Pathology Node) Industry Symposium took place, to discuss how the latest technologies could take us a step closer to accurately diagnosing conditions such as asthma, pneumonia, heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary...
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Special comedy event and animated film in honour of playwright and provocateur Joe Orton
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/special-comedy-event-and-animated-film-in-honour-of-playwright-and-provocateur-joe-orton
To mark 50 years since the death of Joe Orton, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Chris Shepherd is collaborating with Dr Emma Parker from our School of Arts on an Arts Council-funded project inspired by prank letters of complaint that Orton penned using the pseudonym Mrs Edna Welthorpe.