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A Sea of Conflict? Christian Muslim Encounters 1100-1300 AD- Part 1
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3763
Module code: HS3763 This special subject will look at the history of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean from a religious and cultural perspective.
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Our students take part in European Central Bank QA
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/our-students-take-part-in-european-central-bank-q-a
Students on our School of Business Intermediate Macroeconomics 2 module led by Professor Panicos Demetriades, took part in a live Twitter Question and Answer session with The European Central Bank’s (ECB) Executive Board Member and Chief Economist Peter Praet on Thursday...
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Leicester Astronomers aid project to identify start of lunar month
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/leicester-astronomers-aid-project-to-identify-start-of-lunar-month
Leicester Astronomers aid project to identify start of lunar month Leicester Astronomers aid project to identify start of lunar month 700| Collaboration to determine start of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar.
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24th July 2017 Sol 1765 Solar Conjunction
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/07/24/24th-july-2017-sol-1765-solar-conjunction/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on July 24, 2017 No new photos from Mars Science laboratory. Why? We have reached Solar Conjunction – this is the time in the planets’ orbits when Mars is obscured from the Earth by the Sun.
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Final chances to view popular city centre archaeological dig
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/final-chances-to-view-popular-city-centre-archaeological-dig
These tickets have now sold out Due to huge demand, Leicester archaeologists have announced further opportunities for members of the public to view the largest archaeological excavation in Leicester in over a decade on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 May 2017.
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The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/hoodie
Read the article "The hoodie: a symbol of all that is wrong with youth today?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Museums and social justice – and why I bang on about it quite a lot.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2018/04/12/museums-and-social-justice-and-why-i-bang-on-about-it-quite-a-lot/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018 This week marked the 73 rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there.
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The World Wide Web is 30 years old
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/18/the-world-wide-web-is-30-years-old/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...
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Leicester's out of this world research to be showcased at New Scientist Live
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/leicesters-out-the-world-research-to-be-showcased-at-new-scientist-live
New Scientist Live 2018 Dr Emma Bunce and Suzie Imber to talk about Leicester's involvement in the upcoming BepiColombo ESA mission to Mercury! ek4f8XjJ_4E Leicester's out the world research to be showcased at New Scientist Live New scientist live 1393|On Thursday 20...
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‘Removing womens’ inequality would add $12 trillion to global growth’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/09/30/removing-womens-inequality-would-add-12-trillion-to-global-growth/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 30, 2016 …according to the latest report from Mckinsey. It estimates that gender inequality has vast economic costs.