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Leicester medieval historian elected as Fellow of the British Academy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/joanna-story-british-academy-fellow-leicester
The University of Leicester's Professor Joanna Story has been elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy as a UK Fellow.
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The start of the War
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war/the-start-of-the-war
Find interviews with residents of Leicestershire who discuss the start of the First World War, including memories of encouragement to sign up to the army.
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Government funding for project to supply Africa with electricity from waste
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/08-pyropower-nigeria-electricity-waste
An Earth Observation Innovation team from the University of Leicester is collaborating with PyroGenesys Ltd. and a number of UK and international organisations on a project to generate off-grid electricity for remote rural communities in Africa starting with Nigeria.
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Research involving the use of animals
https://le.ac.uk/policies/research/use-of-animals
Get more information on the policy in place for the use of animals in research at the University of Leicester.
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Women's Writing in the Midlands, 1750-1850
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/womens-writing-midlands
This commissioned piece from the Centre for New Writing focusses on the lives and writing of the abolitionist women in the Midlands during the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
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Trailblazing astrophysicist and champion of women in science to deliver University of Leicester public lecture
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/april/jocelyn-bell
Two science superstars will converge at the University of Leicester for a special public lecture, next month.
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Leicester City Graduate Project earns FSB local government prize
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/city-graduate-project-award
A flagship internship scheme encouraging students from Leicester’s two universities to stay and work in the city after they graduate has been recognised as one of the best regional initiatives at a national award ceremony.
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Landmark genetic study sheds new light on how the eye develops its sharpest vision
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/eye-genetic-study-foveal-leicester
Combining artificial intelligence and genetics has allowed researchers in Leicester to study the part of the eye that gives us sharp central vision in amazing detail for the first time
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Schoolchildren to create bags to hold bones of Richard III
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/school-children-to-create-bags-to-hold-bones-of-richard-iii
Pupils at King Richard III Infant School are playing an historic part in the reinterment of Richard III by creating special bags that will hold small bones - such as those from his hands - which will then be laid inside the coffin.
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Leicester researchers to speak at Documentary Media Month events
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-researchers-to-take-part-in-documentary-media-month-events
Leicester researchers will be holding a series of events as part of Documentary Media Month, taking place throughout the month of November and organised by citizen journalist John Coster.