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Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen’s Land
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/10/31/transporting-convicts-from-new-zealand-to-van-diemens-land/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on October 31, 2017 By Dr Kristyn Harman Senior Lecturer in History, University of Tasmania Like many New Zealanders, I grew up hearing stories about the Australian penal colonies, particularly anecdotes of London...
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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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Nineteenth Century British Art Reassessed
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ha3025
Module code: HA3025 British art between 1800-1900 has often been the victim of critical and art-historical scorn, often seen as producing ‘old-fashioned’ or ‘prosaic’ art.
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Leicester Symphony Orchestra
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/lso
A concert on 23 October 2021 by the Leicester Symphony Orchestra, supported by the University, was a triple celebration. The event marked both the centenaries of both the University, which accepted its first students in 1921, and the LSO, which was founded one year later.
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World War II
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/leicestershire-villages/world-war-two
Hear interviews with residents of Leicestershire villages during World War II, such as Gertrude Moore who recalls the factory she worked in making munitions for the war effort.
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Toxic Apocalypse hits University campus in independent film
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/toxic-apocalypse-hits-university-campus-in-independent-film
A feature film partially shot on the University of Leicester campus has been released through Amazon’s Video on Demand service.
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Easter eggs hot cross buns and the microorganisms that help create them
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/easter-eggs-hot-cross-buns-and-the-microorganisms-that-help-create-them
With supermarket shelves filled with chocolate at this time of year, little thought goes into how the humble cocoa bean eventually becomes the popular Easter egg.