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President and Vice-Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/senior-management/executive-board/president-and-vice-chancellor
The President and Vice-Chancellor works with all colleagues to build on the University’s world class reputation in research and teaching to make a positive change in the world.
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George Harrison
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/george-harrison
We have learned, with sadness, of the passing of George Anthony Harrison, who lectured in history from the 1960s to the 1990s and remained a familiar figure on campus for many years afterwards. George passed away on 22 January 2025, aged 87.
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Mike Le Bas
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/mike-le-bas
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Michael John Le Bas, who was Senior Lecturer in Igneous Petrology in the Department of Geology from 1961 to 1992.
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Paul Gostelow
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/paul-gostelow
We have learned, with regret, of the death of Emeritus Professor of Engineering Paul Gostelow. A memorial service will be held on Wednesday 12 October, at 11.00am, in Markfield Trinity Methodist Church, followed by a light lunch reception at Quorn Country Hotel. All are welcome.
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Yearbook Physics Astronomy
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/18/announcing-the-2020-yearbook/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 18 December 2020 Twelve months ago, as the Leicester Physics News Team were pulling together stories for our first-ever Yearbook 2019 , we could never have imagined the strange world we find ourselves in at...
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Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/22/witnesses-wives-politicians-soldiers-the-women-of-waterloo/
Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 22, 2015 Witnesses, wives, politicians, soldiers: the women of Waterloo By Katherine Astbury Associate Professor and Reader of French at University of Warwick Visit The Last Stand: Napoleon’s 100 Days in 100 Objects: www.
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Finding Helena
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2020/04/28/finding-helena/
Posted by in Waugh and Words on April 28, 2020 May 3rd is the Feast of the Finding of the True Cross. Here Sara Haslam, our volume editor for Evelyn Waugh’s novel about St Helena, reflects on the time she has spent with the woman Waugh credits with the discovery.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/10/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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An Oxford Quarrel: Evelyn Waugh and Hugh Trevor-Roper
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/09/19/an-oxford-quarrel-evelyn-waugh-and-hugh-trevor-roper/
Milena Borden gives a brief history of Evelyn Waugh's hostile relationship with Hugh Trevor-Roper - and asks what it tells us about Oxford's post-war battle of ideas.
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Using Diamond X-Rays to Explore Asteroid Surfaces
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/04/09/using-diamond-x-rays-to-explore-asteroid-surfaces/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 9 April 2021 In a new paper, Leicester’s Leon Hicks and colleagues used synchrotron X-rays to investigate how space weathering has altered the iron composition of samples from the Itokawa asteroid.