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Single election broadcast influenced one third of viewers’ votes

Published
Monday 4th December, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

The BBC’s Question Time Leaders’ Special may have swung more than a million people’s votes in June’s General Election, according to the first in-depth analysis of its effect on the poll.

Alice Bacon celebrates her General Election victory in Leeds in 1945. Picture: The Yorkshire Post

Event celebrates Yorkshire’s first woman MP

Published
Thursday 30th November, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

The achievements of a pioneering Yorkshire MP are to be commemorated with a public lecture by senior MP Harriet Harman.

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Understanding Sikh activism in Britain

Published
Wednesday 15th November, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture
Society & Politics

Research sparked by media reports citing Sikh “radicalisation” in Britain has found little evidence of the country's Sikhs being radicalised to join international terrorist groups.

A wounded man from Zeebrugge having his wounds dressed by naval and Red Cross nurses at Chatham. Credit: Wellcome Collection

What can war teach today’s nurses about wound care?

Published
Tuesday 7th November, 2017
Categories
Health
Arts & Culture

A recreated First World War field hospital and groundbreaking research into wound care will be combined as part of an innovative event partnering history with healthcare next week.

University of Leeds alumnus Simon Rix, bassist with Kaiser Chiefs

Capital of Culture 2023 – the bid is in

Published
Friday 27th October, 2017
Categories
University
Arts & Culture

The city of Leeds is celebrating a key phase in its bid to be European Capital of Culture in 2023.

Stanley Ellis, Survey of English Dialects fieldworker, with microphone, with 'informant' Tom Mason, near Ilkley in 1967

Updating the most comprehensive dialect survey ever

Published
Friday 20th October, 2017
Categories
Society & Politics
Arts & Culture

A National Lottery grant is allowing the University to update the most comprehensive survey of the dialects of England ever undertaken.

Abstract Playground AP3 at the Roger Stevens Building by Will Hurt

Lighting up the campus

Published
Monday 2nd October, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture

The University of Leeds is playing a key part in Light Night Leeds this year, hosting 12 events on campus as part of the city’s biggest free annual multi-arts event.

Masaru Yoshitake performs on a Steinway in the University of Leeds' Great Hall during the last Leeds International Piano Competition in 2015.

Prestigious Steinway status provides key upgrade

Published
Monday 25th September, 2017
Categories
Arts & Culture

Music students at the University of Leeds will become part of a select band later this year when it gains coveted All-Steinway School status.