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The University as a military hospital during the Great War
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/military-hospital
The University’s building now known as the Fielding Johnson Building was used as a military hospital during the First World War. Find out more about its wartime history.
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History of Prisons in Guyana
https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/history-of-prisons-in-guyana
History of prisons in Guyana including details of a virtual reality tour.
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The Politics of Victimhood
https://le.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/previous-research-projects/the-politics-of-victimhood
The aim of the seminars is to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines and working on a number of substantive topics, as well as practitioners from a range of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and human rights agencies, in order to discuss key political and...
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The kitten heel: progress for women in politics?
https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/kitten-heel
Read the article "The kitten heel: progress for women in politics?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.
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Street Law
https://le.ac.uk/engagement/case-studies/street-law
After being helped by a youth homelessness project when she was younger, a University of Leicester student is now spearheading a project to bring legal clout to the streets of Leicester.
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Green Energy and Transport
https://le.ac.uk/engineering/research/green-energy-and-transport
The School of Engineering is actively involved in the push towards Net Zero Energy and Transportation Systems. Learn more about the staff, and the activities undertaken in the School.
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On Difficulty in Early Modern Literature
https://le.ac.uk/english/research/research-projects/past-projects/on-difficulty
Project overview This project is an ongoing research collaboration between Hannah Crawforth (KCL) and Sarah Knight in the School of Arts which brings together scholars working on different aspects of difficulty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing.
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Jim Roberts
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/jim-roberts
A Life Lived Well: Jim Roberts (1947-2023) Professor Suzanne MacLeod writes: James (Jim) Roberts was born into a working class-family in Liverpool in 1947.
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David Johnson
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/david-johnson
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr David Thomas Johnson, a former Dean of Arts and more recently Honorary Fellow in History. David passed away on 17 November 2023, aged 83.
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First witness to the Great Fire of London uncovered by University of Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/fire-of-london
Professor Kate Loveman of the University of Leicester for the Museum of London has identified the first witness of the Great Fire of London.