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• The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter

  The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...

• Nothing to sneeze at high pollen levels recorded

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/nothing-to-sneeze-at-high-pollen-levels-recorded

  If you have found yourself sneezing more than usual, the cause of your recent bouts of hayfever may have been identified.

• Diverse range of events taking place at the University of Leicester to celebrate Black History Month 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-black-history-month

  Mental health discussions, student-led initiatives and Leicester’s hidden Black history among events marking Black History Month in the UK

• Facts about snakebite deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/environmental-futures/areas/join-the-fight/facts-about-snakebite-deaths

  Facts about snakebite deaths in India According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2023), about 5.4 million snakebites occur each year, resulting in 1.8 to 2.7 million cases of envenoming.

• 40 years ago: Philip Larkin opens new University library

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/25/40-years-ago-philip-larkin-opens-new-university-library/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on September 25, 2015 Philip Larkin unveils plaque opening the new University Library.

• Living and Working in Space

  https://le.ac.uk/research/centres/humanity-space/living-and-working-in-space

  Living and Working in Space strand of the Leverhulme Centre for Humanity and Space (LCHS)

• Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2015/06/18/commemorating-samuel-whitbread-1758-1815/

  Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on June 18, 2015 ‘I deny the insane proposition that peace is more dangerous than war’: Commemorating Samuel Whitbread, 1758-1815 By E.J.

• Empathy course aims to improve outcomes for patients and frontline healthcare practitioners

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/empathy

  A UK team recognised internationally for its expertise in empathic healthcare has launched an innovative course designed to improve outcomes for patients and medical staff

• Predicting the impact of illness – and its remedies

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/august/predicting-the-impact-of-illness-2013-and-its-remedies

  Predicting the impact of illness – and its remedies Predicting the impact of illness – and its remedies 1425|Comprehensive approach to modelling healthcare in populations developed at Leicester could help to plan NHS services A new method of modelling illness across...

• Ethnic minority and poorer children more likely to die in intensive care

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/ethnic-minority-death-children-intensive-care-leicester

  Children from ethnic minority backgrounds and those living in areas with higher levels of child poverty are more likely to die in intensive care than White children and those from the least deprived areas, new study by University of Leicester researchers shows