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In the Land of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2020/05/07/in-the-land-of-the-blind-the-one-eyed-man-is-king/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on May 7, 2020 This morning I watched a Youtube Video (hey, aren’t I down with the kids ), about a researcher advocating the view that communications about the Covid-19 pandemic are being manipulated to force people...
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Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/05/29/evelyn-waugh-reader-writer-collector/
An idiosyncratic reflection by Robert Murray Davis on a Waugh symposium held at the Huntington, Pasadena, over 5-6 May 2017.
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Charles Phythian-Adams
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/charles-phythian-adams
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Emeritus Professor Charles Phythian-Adams, former Head of the Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), who passed away on 13 May 2025.
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Senate regulation 4: Regulations governing student obligations
https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/senate-regulations/senate-regulation-4
Downloadable version of Senate Regulation 4 (PDF, 163KB) Attendance and Engagement with Learning and Teaching Events 4.
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Japanese
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/japanese
Study Japanese courses for all levels at The University of Leicester.
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Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/04/addressing-liberty-hayek-gibraltar-and-the-road-to-serfdom/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should...
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A chance to talk about gibbeting and hanging in France? Yes, please! By Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/02/22/parlons-du-gibbet-en-france/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on February 22, 2016 One of the joys of academic work is participating in study days or workshops that bring together a diverse group of scholars to approach a theme or issue from multiple vantage.
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Keep Calm and Scroll On! (Pt.3)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/04/23/keep-calm-and-scroll-on-pt-3/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 23, 2020 Exterior of the Library, c.
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Conference Report: Forced Labour, Confinement and Represssion: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/02/09/conference-report-forced-labour-confinement-and-represssion-european-imperial-and-post-colonial-perspectives/
Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on February 9, 2017 Two weeks ago, a joint workshop on ‘Forced labour, confinement and repression: European, Imperial and Post-Colonial Perspectives’ was hosted by The Carceral Archipelago project and The Stanley Burton...
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The Lord of Misrule and his band of ‘lusty guts’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/12/20/the-lord-of-misrule-and-his-band-of-lusty-guts/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on December 20, 2016 Behaving badly at the Christmas festivities and doing something you would really rather not remember is not an exclusively modern phenomenon, as a trawl through our Special Collections reveals –...