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Celebrating 100 years
https://le.ac.uk/centenary
11 November 2018 marks 100 years since the end of the First World War, as well as the beginning our university as a living memorial to honour those sacrificed during the Great War.
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Jamie Brodella
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/jamie-brodella
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Jamie Brodella, a cherished member of our community and the Team Leader for Portering and Cleaning Services. Jamie passed away peacefully leaving behind a legacy of dedication, kindness, and progressive leadership.
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Order and Disorder: International Relations from 1989 to the Present
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl1016
Module code: PL1016 1989 was the year that changed the world. Democracy returned to Brazil, mass political protest in China was violently suppressed, and South Africa began the process of moving away from apartheid.
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Order and Disorder: International Relations from 1989 to the Present
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/pl1016
Module code: PL1016 1989 was the year that changed the world. Democracy returned to Brazil, mass political protest in China was violently suppressed, and South Africa began the process of moving away from apartheid.
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Order and Disorder: International Relations from 1989 to the Present
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl1016
Module code: PL1016 1989 was the year that changed the world. Democracy returned to Brazil, mass political protest in China was violently suppressed, and South Africa began the process of moving away from apartheid.
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Celebrating 50 years of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/media/about/50-years
Media and Communication at the University of Leicester celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016. As part of our 50th anniversary, we showcased a few student-produced videos about our past, present and future.
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Forced Labour and Shifting Borders
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/01/10/forced-labour-and-shifting-borders-2/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on January 10, 2016 Some may argue (for good reason) that the collapse of space and time is a commonplace condition of twenty-first century life.
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The “Pains of Imprisonment”: an historical sociology of penal transportation?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/11/11/the-pains-of-imprisonment-an-historical-sociology-of-penal-transportation/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 11, 2016 A few years ago, the eminent scholar of the Russian Gulag , Professor Judith Pallot , challenged me to consider the relevance of the sociology of incarceration as a means of understanding convict...
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Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.
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Remembering Exile and Transportation: some thoughts from Cape Town
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/11/02/remembering-exile-and-transportation-some-thoughts-from-cape-town/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 2, 2014 Before I began T he Carceral Archipelago project , my research was loosely centred on the history of Indian Ocean penal settlements and colonies, from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.