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School
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/leicestershire-villages/school
Discover interviews with residents of Leicestershire during their school days, such as Margaret Sparrow discussing her schooling during World War II.
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Writer and political commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to assess the state of Britain today
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/writer-and-political-commentator-yasmin-alibhai-brown-to-assess-the-state-of-britain-today
A journalist considered one of the few female Muslim voices on the political stage is to speak on the state of Britain at a University lecture that celebrates diversity and community cohesion.
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Twenty-First Century Global Fiction
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3200
Module code: EN3200 What characterises twenty-first century fiction? Does it have distinctive formal and thematic features? What does it tell us about the times we are living in? As Peter Boxall notes, the contemporary moment is ‘always difficult to bring into focus, and...
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The Other in American Fiction and Film
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en3130
Module code: EN3130 Who are the monsters in contemporary America? Those who transgress boundaries of sex, gender, race, sexuality? Those whose bodies are 'different', whose very identity contests and destabilises the dominant order? In this module you will...
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The Other in American Fiction and Film
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3130
Module code: EN3130 Who are the monsters in contemporary America? Those who transgress boundaries of sex, gender, race, sexuality? Those whose bodies are 'different', whose very identity contests and destabilises the dominant order? In this module you will...
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The Other in American Fiction and Film
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3130
Module code: EN3130 Who are the monsters in contemporary America? Those who transgress boundaries of sex, gender, race, sexuality? Those whose bodies are 'different', whose very identity contests and destabilises the dominant order? In this module you will...
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Team Leicester champion gender equality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/team-leicester-champion-gender-equality
The University's Sport and Active Life team have officially launched new sports kits that include the #HeForShe logo in support of the University’s commitment to the global solidarity movement for gender equality led by UN Women.
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A small but highly significant step for Britain in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/a-small-but-highly-significant-step-for-britain-in-space
Professor Ken Pounds (pictured), Emeritus Professor of Space Physics and a local pioneer of Space Research, has hailed the significance of Tim Peake becoming the first British astronaut in orbit, but warned there is so far no funding beyond his present mission on...
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The Real Faces of the Royal Borough Exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/library/events/real-faces-of-the-royal-borough
2 May – 15 September 2023 The Real Faces of the Royal Borough brings together digital portraiture by professional Canadian artist Nevada Lynn and research on housing, displacement and gentrification conducted by geographer (and life-long Kensington resident) Sharda Rozena.
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Leicester Cancer Research Biobank
https://le.ac.uk/lcrc/facilities-and-services/cancer-biobank
The Leicester Cancer Research Biobank is hosted within the department of Genetics and Genome Biology, Cancer Research Centre based at the Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building, Cancer research is currently in an era in which thousands of genes, RNA molecules and...