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• May Day: early 19th century traditions

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/04/29/may-day-early-19th-century-traditions/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 29, 2016 Laying May branches Whilst many associate traditional celebrations of May Day with maypoles and Morris dancers, one early nineteenth century custom featured ‘Mayers’ (those included in May Day...

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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/112/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Leicester receives record Turing Scheme funding

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/turing

  Having secured its largest-ever single grant for overseas mobility in 2023, Leicester has once more successfully bid for Turing funding to support outbound student mobility.

• Expert opinions cover magic glass Obamas nuclear policy Kenya and banning the burquini

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/expert-opinions-cover-magic-glass-obamas-nuclear-policy-kenya-and-banning-the-burquini

  Margaret Maclean from the Special Collections has written a Staff Blog discussing the cast of impossibly colourful characters in the collection of Victor Neuburg.

• Leading historians to showcase cutting-edge research into anti-Semitic terror in Nazi Germany

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leading-historians-to-showcase-cutting-edge-research-into-anti-semitic-terror-in-nazi-germany

  Leading historians will be discussing their cutting-edge research into anti-Semitic terror in Nazi Germany at a free public lecture on Tuesday 25 October.

• Four nominations for Attenborough Arts in building awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/four-nominations-for-attenborough-arts-in-building-awards

  The plaudits continue to come in for the Attenborough Arts Centre’s new gallery wing as the East Midlands Local Authority Building Control has shortlisted it for four Building Excellence Awards 2016.

• Performance to explore former Russian spy murder mystery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/performance-to-explore-former-russian-spy-murder-mystery

  The public inquiry about the mysterious circumstances of Alexander Litvinenko’s death has begun eight years after the former Russian spy was poisoned with a cup of tea in London in 2006.

• New programme announced for UKs largest archaeology festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/new-programme-announced-for-uk2019s-largest-archaeology-festival

  The programme for this year’s Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology, which is supported by the University of Leicester, has been announced.

• Approaches to nuclear warfighting

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/approaches-to-nuclear-2018war-fighting2019

  A new study by a University academic argues that current passive and static conceptualizations of Chinese approaches to nuclear and conventional deterrence are no longer appropriate.

• Leicester academic provides expert comment on Gosport hospital report

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/leicester-academic-provides-expert-comment-on-gosport-hospital-report

  Professor Richard Baker, Emeritus Professor from our Department of Health Sciences, featured extensively in the national media last week following the publication of the report of the Gosport Independent Panel.