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How medieval people named their animals is explored in new book
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/medieval-animal-names-books
The relationship between medieval people and their pets is the topic of the latest book by the University of Leicester’s Dr Ben Parsons. Introducing Medieval Animal Names explores what names medieval people gave to the animals with which they lived and worked.
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Eight Weeks with Ghost Signs
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/09/04/eight-weeks-with-ghost-signs/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library and Learning Services on September 4, 2024 by Grace McWeeney As part of a Museum Studies 8-week work placement program, I worked with the Ghost Signs Collection at the University of Leicester. These are a few things I learned along the way.
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Esteemed academics from top UK universities to take part in Black in Academia panel event at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/esteemed-academics-from-top-uk-universities-to-take-part-in-2018black-in-academia2019-panel-event-at-leicester
An upcoming event at the University of Leicester will see some of Britain’s leading academic minds take part in a discussion on equality in Higher Education on Thursday 26 October.
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Book Group: A Tourist in Africa
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/06/29/tourist-2/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on June 29, 2015 First Edition of A Tourist in Africa (1960) Before last Saturday, I kept quiet about A Tourist in Africa ’s reputation as Waugh’s ‘worst book’.
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European Bodies in Prehistory and History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar3074
Module code: AR3074 How do people understand their bodies? How does this change through time? Are bodies the product of particular kinds of historical worlds? How do these bodies play key roles in history? Drawing on research conducted by module...
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Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/scholars-discuss-the-formalisation-and-implications-of-the-anthropocene
Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene Scholars discuss the formalisation and implications of the Anthropocene| The Anthropocene Working Group holds meeting at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Humans have had a large impact on Earth.
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Evelyn Waugh, Cynic?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2016/01/27/evelyn-waugh-cynic/
A summary of Naomi Milthorpe's research in the Evelyn Waugh Collection at the Huntington Library.
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World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/largest-tropical-peatlands-40000-years-old
New research finds peatland complex in Congo Basin to be more than twice as old as previously thought, expertise from the University of Leicester supported the study
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Reindeer ice rink and giant interactive snow globe to kick off the festive season on campus
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/reindeer-ice-rink-and-giant-interactive-snow-globe-to-kick-off-the-festive-season-on-campus
On Thursday 1 and Friday 2 December, the centre of campus will be transformed into a winter wonderland complete with ice rink, real reindeer and Christmas market.
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Tom Chad
https://le.ac.uk/bhf-accelerator/people/previous-researchers/tom-chad
British Heart Foundation Accelerator Academic Clinical Fellow tc269@le.ac.uk Qualifications MBChB. University of Leicester 2016 MSc. University of Nottingham 2011 BSc.