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Global History: comparative and connected approaches
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7310
Module code: HS7310 The ‘global turn’ describes a field of historical research that emerged in part as a response to decolonisation and the break-up of European empires, challenges to white supremacy and the global order, and demands for the recognition of the histories of...
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Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3646
Module code: HS3646 You’ll be investigating England in the 14th century, a ‘long, eventful and often turbulent century’ running from Edward I’s Crisis of 1297 to the death of Henry IV in 1413.
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Fieldwork Skills for Professional Geographers
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy1026
Module code: GY1026 In this module you will gain basic skills that are critical to conducting fieldwork, including keeping a field notebook, observation skills, collecting, collating and presenting different types of data.
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World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/largest-tropical-peatlands-40000-years-old
New research finds peatland complex in Congo Basin to be more than twice as old as previously thought, expertise from the University of Leicester supported the study
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Political Cartoons in the Classroom: The ‘Simple View of Reading’ Approach
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/03/02/political-cartoons-in-the-classroom-the-simple-view-of-reading-approach/
Blog on reading political cartoons in the classroom
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Celebrating women in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/dr-suzie-imber-takes-part-in-uk-space-agency-womeninspace-video
To mark and celebrate International Women's Day 2018, the UK Space Agency invited women working across the space sector to share their advice on pursuing a career in the field and discuss why it is such an exciting sector to work in.
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Vindolanda Week 3 – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2020/11/25/there-and-back-again-vindolanda-week-3/
The Arch-I-Scan team finishes up their third week of pottery scanning at the Roman fort and museum at Vindolanda.
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The Centre for Victorian Studies
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies
Welcome to the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. We have a distinguished record of innovation and excellence in interdisciplinary Victorian Studies research and teaching at postgraduate level.
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Why study for a PhD at Leicester?
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/research-degrees/why-leicester
Study with us and you will become part of an internationally-renowned research community. In addition to encouraging high quality research, we support our students in developing the skills and the knowledge they need to pursue their chosen career.
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Experts to explore what a good Brexit is for city and county
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/experts-to-explore-what-a-good-brexit-is-for-city-and-county
The roadmap to Leicester and Leicestershire’s post-Brexit prosperity is to be explored at a meeting of minds organised by our University that will see professional and academic expertise, and the general public answer the question: ‘What would a good Brexit look like for...