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Response by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys to Honorary Degree Oration, July 2004
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/honorary-degree-oration/honorary-degree-response
Professor Jeffreys response to being awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science at the University of Leicester.
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Sir Maurice Shock LLD 19262018
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/sir-maurice-shock-lld-1926-2018
Sir Maurice, who was also an honorary graduate of the University, was knighted in the New Year’s Honours List in 1988 in recognition of his services to Leicester and the wider academic community.
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Research
https://le.ac.uk/american-studies/research
All academics in the Centre for American Studies at the University of Leicester are actively engaged in academic research, publishing their work both here in the UK and in the USA. Find out about our research projects.
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Practical Aims and Methods in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar1009
Module code: AR1009 This module will expand upon (and deepen your understanding of) the topics and issues covered in Archaeology: the essentials as well as provide greater practical experience of the archaeological techniques used in excavation, survey and post-excavation...
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Practical Aims and Methods in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar1009
Module code: AR1009 This module will expand upon (and deepen your understanding of) the topics and issues covered in Archaeology: the essentials as well as provide greater practical experience of the archaeological techniques used in excavation, survey and post-excavation...
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Practical Aims and Methods in Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar1009
Module code: AR1009 This module will expand upon (and deepen your understanding of) the topics and issues covered in Archaeology: the essentials as well as provide greater practical experience of the archaeological techniques used in excavation, survey and post-excavation...
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Evelyn Waugh
https://le.ac.uk/evelyn-waugh
Explore the complete works of Evelyn Waugh with the University of Leicester, Oxford University Press and the Waugh family. Learn more about this project.
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Other institutions, societies and bodies and other persons serving in a personal capacity as members of Court
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/court/membership/other
Browse the list of the other institutions and persons serving in a personal capacity as members of Court. This includes schools, societies and other bodies and more.
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What do Uranuss cloud tops have in common with rotten eggs
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/what-do-uranus2019s-cloud-tops-have-in-common-with-rotten-eggs
Hydrogen sulphide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their charm, appears to permeate the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus – as has been long debated, but never definitively proven.
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The Blue Boar Inn
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/blue-boar-inn
The Blue Boar Inn was constructed in the mid-15th century. Richard’s final stay in Leicester was for one or two nights at the Blue Boar Inn on 19 and 20 August.