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The Two Fredericks: A snapshot of male intimacy in prison
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/09/30/the-two-fredericks-cockatoo-island/
Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on September 30, 2016 In the 1840s, campaigners for the abolition of convict transportation engaged in a campaign of scare-mongering about the prevalence of sexual acts between male convicts (dubbed “unnatural acts”).
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Authentic Recipes from Around the World – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/19/authentic-recipes-from-around-the-world/
Project PI Deborah Toner reflects on how collaboration with non-academic partners is a major part of the project and how research impact is defined in academia
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Where to dig
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/where-to-dig
We identified three potential areas of excavation – the Leicester City Council Social Services car park, the former Alderman Newton’s School playground and a private car park to the west of New Street.
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Indigeneity and Carcerality: Thinking about reserves, prisons, and settler colonialism
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/10/27/indigeneity-and-carcerality-thinking-about-reserves-prisons-and-settler-colonialism/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on October 27, 2016 In 1871, a group of men – hereditary chiefs of the Six Nations of the Grand River – met with anthropologist Horatio Hale in the town of Brantford, Ontario.
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Arch Street Prison: A Prison without Convicts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/09/10/arch-street-prison-a-prison-without-convicts/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 10, 2015 By Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan.
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Orton memoir to have Leicester launch at literary festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/orton-memoir-to-have-leicester-launch-at-literary-festival
Our University is to host the Leicester launch of a new memoir by Leonie Orton, the sister of playwright Joe Orton whose archive is housed at the University.
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Leicester remembers honorary graduate Tim Pigott-Smith
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-remembers-honorary-graduate-tim-pigott-smith
The University was saddened to learn on 7 April of the death of Tim Pigott-Smith, noted actor and and honorary graduate of the University of Leicester.
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Innovative Leicester centre spearheads international initiative
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/empathy-network
An international network which is driving forward empathic healthcare across the world has staged its first ever meeting in Leicester
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Michael Chamberlain
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/michael-chamberlain
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Identifying clues to the position and orientation of the buildings
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/position-of-buildings
The team found important clues to which part of the friary had been found because the benches they found would be the chapter house, which normally projected from the eastern side of a cloister, making the corridor or building joining it in Trench 2 part of the eastern...