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Leicesters contribution to forensic history featured by BBC
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/leicester2019s-contribution-to-forensic-history-featured-by-bbc
BBC4’s new three-part documentary series exploring the history and development of forensic science includes contributions from academics at the University of Leicester, including Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys discussing his invention of DNA fingerprinting.
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Management academic in new BBC dance programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/management-academic-in-new-bbc-dance-programme
A Teaching Fellow in our School of Management has featured in a new two-part BBC television documentary You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, that follows choreographer to the stars, Jack Murphy, as he attempts to revive ballroom dancing in Bolton.
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UoL Historian wins double book prize
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/uol-historian-wins-double-book-prize/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical...
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Curiosity Rover Reaches the Clay Unit in Gale Crater, Sol 2073
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2019/02/07/curiosity-rover-reaches-the-clay-unit-in-gale-crater-sol-2073/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on February 7, 2019 Looking towards the Clay Unit After 20.1 km and 2073 sols of driving and science operations we have reached the next milestone of the Mars Science Laboratory mission – the Clay Unit.
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New book on bisexuality to debut at Leicester Pride
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/new-book-on-bisexuality-to-debut-at-leicester-pride
A new book on bisexuality co-curated by a University staff member will feature on the University’s stand at Leicester Pride on Saturday 3 September 2016.
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July Book Group: Early Short Stories
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/07/14/earlyshortstories/
Summary of the Waugh Book Group's discussion of the early short stories, July 2014.
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Understanding election coverage using Big data
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/understanding-election-coverage-using-big-data
Researchers from our Department of Media and Communication, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have for the first time analysed mass media coverage to understand how elections are covered by the press.
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November Book Group: The Loved One
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/11/10/menatarms/
Deatils of the November Waugh Book Group meeting, 2014
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New project to save sole surviving population of rare wildflower
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-project-to-save-sole-surviving-population-of-rare-wildflower
A new conservation project at the Botanic Garden hopes to save a rare wildflower that is almost extinct throughout Leicestershire and Rutland - and has a declining population nationwide.
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The Connected Histories of the BBC project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/04/11/the-connected-histories-of-the-bbc-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 11, 2025 The Connected Histories project was a six year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by a team from the University of Sussex.