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Award-winning Irchester Field School brings Roman history to life for local community
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/heritage-hub-irchester-field-school-mj-award
A University of Leicester partnership with North Northamptonshire Council has won an MJ Award.
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Counting the cost of Britains most damaging conflict
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/counting-the-cost-of-britain2019s-most-damaging-conflict
A new Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project is supporting a team of academics from Leicester, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton universities who are revealing the human cost of the British Civil Wars.
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Teddy bears to teach children about paw health
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/teddy-bears-to-teach-children-about-paw-health
Cuddly toys and their owners, young and old, are invited to receive a special health check at the University’s free family fun day marking the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service.
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International conference on space security and safety to take place at Space Park Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/space-security-conference
Space Park Leicester will host the international “Space Security and Safety Dimensions” Conference on Thursday September 28 and Friday 29 September.
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Watch speeches for Attenborough Arts gallery opening in full
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/watch-speeches-for-attenborough-arts-gallery-opening-in-full
You can now watch the full speeches from the opening of Attenborough Arts’ new galleries wing, given by the centre Director Michaela Butter, President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Sir David Attenborough. Sir David officially opened the new £1.
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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 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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A Solution to the ‘Perfect Murder’? University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/11/05/julia-wallace/
Posted by Victoria Stewart in School of English Blog on November 5, 2013 A Solution to the ‘Perfect Murder’? P. D. James and the Case of Julia Wallace At the end of last month, The Sunday Times proclaimed that the crime novelist P. D.
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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