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Crocus Sundays at the Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/11-crocus-sundays
On 23 February and 1 March the public are invited to visit our Botanic Garden in Oadby for the annual ‘Crocus Sundays’ display of spring flowers. At this time of year the Botanic Garden, one of Leicester’s hidden gems, presents a magnificent spectacle.
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Medieval Mediterranean
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar2608
Module code: AR2608 The Mediterranean Sea was a place of encounters and sometimes even clashes between different cultures during the Middle Ages.
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Female-line family tree
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/female-line-family-tree
Every one of us, males and females alike, inherit our mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from our biological mother. However, only females, through birth, can pass this onto subsequent generations.
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Revolutionary England, 1640-1660: Politics, Religion, Ideas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2339
Module code: HS2339 During the 1640s, England experienced a civil war followed by a revolution, as the victorious parliamentarians executed King Charles I and established a commonwealth.
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Medieval Mediterranean
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar2608
Module code: AR2608 The Mediterranean Sea was a place of encounters and sometimes even clashes between different cultures during the Middle Ages.
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Sand clouds, water vapour and sulphur dioxide detected on nearby exoplanet using world-leading space telescope
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/jwst-sand-clouds
New study that has discovered ‘sand clouds’ on a planet orbiting a nearby star using James Webb Space Telescope involves University of Leicester space scientist, using the MIRI instrument that University engineers and scientists helped design and develop.
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Ravenous black hole consumes three Earths’-worth of star every time it passes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/black-hole
Massive burst of X-rays detected by University of Leicester astronomers indicates material three times the mass of Earth burning up in a black hole.
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Waugh and Words: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 4
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/page/4/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Waugh and Words: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 3
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/page/3/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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University of Leicester building officially reopened as Kathleen Kenyon Building
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/kathleen-kenyon-building-naming-ceremony
The University of Leicester's home for the School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the School of Museum Studies has been named after Dame Kathleen Kenyon.