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Sherry in the filing-cabinet – and as for the milk-jug …
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/07/13/sherry-in-the-filing-cabinet-and-as-for-the-milk-jug/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on July 13, 2016 Our current exhibition from the Special Collections, ‘”Strangers in the Land”? Impressions of India’, explores the attitudes and reactions of the British in India, from the early 17 th century to the...
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The sting of the bling
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/sustainable-metal-extraction
Experts Professor Gawen Jenkin and Dr Dan Smith explain the importance of pursuing sustainable methods of metal extraction in order to tackle climate change.
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Pioneering vascular research receives major boost from the British Heart Foundation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/professor-bown
The British Heart Foundation has awarded nearly £900,000 to a University of Leicester professor to continue his pioneering heart valve research.
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Sneaking a peek at the ring of a 180km crater
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/sneaking-a-peek-at-the-ring-of-a-180km-crater
Researchers from the universities of Leicester and Montpellier will be heading to the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico to participate in a drilling expedition that addresses the science behind the Chicxulub impact structure.
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Archaeology: The Essentials
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar1007
Module code: AR1007 What is an archaeologist? Where does the discipline of Archaeology come from and how is it organised? What techniques do we use to identify traces of past social life? How do we recover those traces through survey and excavation? How...
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Archaeology: The Essentials
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar1007
Module code: AR1007 What is an archaeologist? Where does the discipline of Archaeology come from and how is it organised? What techniques do we use to identify traces of past social life? How do we recover those traces through survey and excavation? How...
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Archaeology: The Essentials
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1007
Module code: AR1007 What is an archaeologist? Where does the discipline of Archaeology come from and how is it organised? What techniques do we use to identify traces of past social life? How do we recover those traces through survey and excavation? How...
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Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.
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Paris and the rush to remember the aftermath of the 2005 London bombings
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/paris-and-the-rush-to-remember-the-aftermath-of-the-2005-london-bombings
A call for any memorial event following the Paris attacks to be ‘more sensitively handled’ than the official response to the 2005 London bombings has been made by Dr Matthew Allen, Lecturer in Culture and Political Economy in the School of Management.
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Sir David Attenborough highlights destruction of the natural world within a generation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/sir-david-attenborough-highlights-destruction-of-the-natural-world-within-a-generation
Renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough opened a new £1.5million galleries wing at Attenborough Arts Centre – the building championed by his late brother Lord Attenborough.