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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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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...
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The Grey Friars – a brief history
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/grey-friars-history
The history of the Grey Friars site from its beginnings in 1224 to the thing it is best known for - Richard III’s burial in the church choir in 1485.
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The passport: is it the only way to say who we truly are?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/passport
Read the article "The passport: is it the only way to say who we truly are?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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World-first clinical trial to test personalised treatments for aggressive form of lung cancer
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/29-world-first-clinical-personalised-treatment-lung-cancer
The first-ever trial into delivering personalised treatment for mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, opened at the HOPE Clinical Trials Facility at Leicester's Hospitals today (Tuesday 29 January).
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Easy access for local people to university libraries
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/libraries
Universities in Leicester and Leicestershire are opening up their libraries to public users.
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Emily Tilley: Shedding new light on Roman artefacts
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/emily-tilley
Learn more about how Museum Studies at Leicester distance learning courses have improved. The new changes mean that the course is more in-sync with the campus-based course, but still maintains the flexibility of a distance learning course.
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Psychology students venture overseas for much desired work experience
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/psychology-students-venture-overseas-for-much-desired-work-experience
Psychology students venture overseas for much desired work experience Psychology students venture overseas for much desired work experience 1462|Leicester students, Kona Rogers and Ryan Selby, gain crucial experience participating in a Mental Health Placement with SLV.
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More than 50 years of Leicester in space
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/05-more-than-50-years-of-leicester-in-space
In World Space Week we reflect on the University of Leicester’s long history of making out of this world discoveries.
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Disparity in cultural sector funding deprives regional museums libraries and heritage sites
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/disparity-in-cultural-sector-funding-deprives-regional-museums-libraries-and-heritage-sites
An academic from the School of Museum Studies has suggested that disparities in funding for the cultural sector at a regional level results in cultural institutions and programmes in many areas of the UK being deprived of vital resources.