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Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/colonial-countryside
Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity. Requests for the Colonial Countryside packs, written by author and history teacher Dan Lyndon-Cohen, have gone from one or two a week to more than 30 a day.
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Locating Art
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mu7002
Module code: MU7002 Locating Art examines the relationship between art, agency and social change across diverse locations and contexts including art museums; indigenous and rural art spaces; biennials; contemporary art centres, and the digital world.
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College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities
https://le.ac.uk/research/doctoral-college/research-students/events/inaugural-lectures/cssah
Explore the archives of lectures delivered by the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities researchers from the University of Leicester.
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How Buildings Work: Architectural History and Structural Engineering from the Ancient World to 2000
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs7512
Module code: HS7512 The architecture of a building or townscape is a window into the time of its construction.
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How Buildings Work: Architectural History and Structural Engineering from the Ancient World to 2000
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7512
Module code: HS7512 The architecture of a building or townscape is a window into the time of its construction.
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Unprecedented energy consumption is leaving a permanent stain on planetary history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/anthropocene
A new study co-authored by three professors at the University of Leicester’s School of Geography, Geology and the Environment argues that the speed and scale of human energy consumption has pushed the Earth towards a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’.
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Astrophysicist to visit Kazakhstan to watch astronaut Tim Peake make British space exploration history
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/astrophysicist-prepares-to-visit-kazakhstan-to-watch-astronaut-tim-peake-make-british-space-exploration-history
Martin Barstow, University Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Head of the College of Science and Engineering and Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science from the Department of Physics and Astronomy will have a front row seat when British astronaut Tim Peake makes history by...
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Mantle Oral History collection
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/all/mantle-oral-history
The Mantle Oral History Project collection is an extensive collection of interviews with residents of the Coalville and Whitwick areas between 1984 and 1992. Find out more about the collection.
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Expert opinions cover ants Russian cyber techniques and the UK sex industry
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/expert-opinions-cover-ants-russian-cyber-techniques-and-the-uk-sex-industry
In an article for The Conversation, Dr Rob Hammond and PhD candidate Charlie Durant from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology have discussed how scientists are on the hunt for new ways to attack harmful microbes.
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Attenborough Arts announces new partnership with the British Museum
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/aac-british-museum
The University of Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre has been named today as one of the British Museum’s key cultural partners for 2021, and will be collaborating on a new innovative national programme for young people named Where we are… Working in partnership with...