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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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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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Mars Science Laboratory Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 25
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/page/25/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Events
https://le.ac.uk/alumni/join-us/events
Take a look at events that have brought our alumni together recently.
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65 Years of Space at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/space
The history of Space research at the University of Leicester
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jbridges: Page 13
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/author/jbridges/page/13/
This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards...I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions.
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Doctors, Disease and Pandemics: Patients and Practitioners
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs7312
Module code: HS7312 This module examines disease and the varieties of human response to it in society, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, taking a focused ‘case study’ approach.
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Doctors, Disease and Pandemics: Patients and Practitioners
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs7312
Module code: HS7312 This module examines disease and the varieties of human response to it in society, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, taking a focused ‘case study’ approach.
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Doctors, Disease and Pandemics: Patients and Practitioners
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs7312
Module code: HS7312 This module examines disease and the varieties of human response to it in society, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, taking a focused ‘case study’ approach.
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Expert to discuss gene-editing research at free public lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/expert-to-discuss-gene-editing-research-at-free-public-lecture
A leading expert will be discussing the latest breakthroughs in gene-editing research during this year’s Frank May Prize lecture on 31 October.