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  • The Politics of Contemporary British Foreign Policy

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/pl3137

    Module code: PL3137 Despite the loss of its global supremacy in the mid-1950s, the United Kingdom is still one of the world's great powers.

  • Exposure to air pollution associated with increase in sedentary time, study finds

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/pollution

    Long-term exposure to current levels of UK air pollution has been found to be associated with an annual increase of up to 22 minutes of sedentary time each day, in a study published in the Journal of Public Health.

  • Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/ig-nobel-zalasiewicz

    Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig Nobel Prize in 2023.

  • Hive of activity how genes turn bees into workers and queens

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/hive-of-activity-how-genes-turn-bees-into-workers-and-queens

    Biologists have discovered that one of nature’s most important pollinators - the buff-tailed bumblebee – either ascends to the land of milk and honey by becoming a queen or remains a lowly worker bee based on which genes are ‘turned on’ during its lifespan.

  • Music is in the genes University staff to play at charity gig

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/music-is-in-the-genes-university-staff-to-play-at-charity-gig

    Staff from the Department of Genetics will be performing at a charity gig in aid of Parkinson’s UK. The Histones, who formed last year to celebrate the department’s 50th anniversary, will be appearing at the Shed in Leicester on Friday 26 June.

  • Leicester academic Professor Mark Jobling to chart the evolution of individual identification at Galton Institute conference

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-academic-professor-mark-jobling-to-chart-the-evolution-of-individual-identification-at-galton-institute-conference

    Professor Mark Jobling from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology will be giving a talk at the Galton Institute conference on 15 November - charting the evolution of individual identification from its earliest inception via fingerprints in 1892, through to the...

  • The destruction of Old St Paul’s

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/01/the-destruction-of-old-st-pauls/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016 350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with...

  • Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016   When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.

  • Leicester scientists discover ‘Star Wars’ planet

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/leicester-scientists-discover-star-wars-planet

    Scientists from the University of Leicester has revealed for the first time that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings - similar to the planet Tatooine in Star Wars.

  • June Book Group: A Handful of Dust

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/06/16/handfulofdust/

    Summary of the Waugh Book Groups discussion of A Handful of Dust in June 2014.

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