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• Turned off at Execution Dock: Thames Scenery in the City of the Gallows. By Richard Ward

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/04/25/turned-off-at-execution-dock-thames-scenery-in-the-city-of-the-gallows-by-richard-ward/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on April 25, 2016   Eighteenth-century London has, with good reason, been called “the city of the gallows”.

• Leaders In Healthcare 2018: Rt Hon Matt Hancock

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/11/16/leaders-in-healthcare-2018-rt-hon-matt-hancock/

  Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on November 16, 2018   It would be interesting to hear from the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care any day.

• Leicester athlete Nick Cummins set to compete in Wheelchair Rugby World Championships

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/leicester-athlete-nick-cummins-set-to-compete-in-wheelchair-rugby-world-championships

  Talented Leicester athlete Nick Cummins is set to tackle the competition in the Wheelchair Rugby World Championships, taking place in Sydney, Australia between 5 – 10 August.

• How the enclosure of common land sparked riots revolts and resistance in the Midlands

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/how-the-enclosure-of-common-land-sparked-riots-revolts-and-resistance-in-the-midlands

  A series of riots by angry farmers opposing the enclosure of common land in the Midlands in 1607 will be the subject of this year’s Hoskins Lecture on 5 May.

• Leicester geneticists involved in research into the UKs leading cause of food poisoning

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/leicester-geneticists-involved-in-research-into-the-uks-leading-cause-of-food-poisoning

  Geneticists at the University are involved in new research, led by the University of Liverpool, which reveals that the immune response of farmed chickens does not develop fast enough to fight off Campylobacter during their short lifespan.

• Former Leicester astronomers recall how they discovered the source of the dazzling Geminids meteor shower

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/former-leicester-astronomers-recall-how-they-discovered-the-source-of-the-dazzling-geminids-meteor-shower

  The beautiful Geminids meteor shower is due to light up the heavens this weekend, but the source of the enigmatic cosmic display had eluded stargazers for more than 120 years.

• Stem cell research to help fight brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/stem-cell-research-to-help-fight-brittle-bone-disease-osteogenesis-imperfecta

  A study involving Professor Raymond Dalgleish (pictured) from the Department of Genetics is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into foetuses with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which causes repeated...

• Leicester student in world Wheelchair Rugby Challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-student-in-world-wheelchair-rugby-challenge

  A Leicester doctoral student has described the ‘great experience’ of taking part in the inaugural BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge.

• Prison rehabilitation researcher wins presenting challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/short-sentence-prison-rehabilitation-researcher-wins-presenting-challenge

  The Graduate School is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s 3 Minute Thesis competition, held on 20 May 2015. The competition featured eleven excellent presentations from both full time and part time postgraduate researchers.

• A change of scenery mankinds unprecedented transformation of Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/a-change-of-scenery-mankind2019s-unprecedented-transformation-of-earth

  Human beings are pushing the planet in an entirely new direction with revolutionary implications for its life, a new study by researchers from the Department of Geology and published in The Anthropocene Review suggests.