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• Leicester historian’s ‘elegant pages’ that provided the script for last coronation

  Date: 3 May 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-order-of-service

  Details of University of Leicester historian’s contribution to the design and printing of the Order of Service for the coronation of Queen...

• University of Leicester celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/adrian-mole

  University of Leicester is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged...

• Civil War exhibition draws on Leicester expertise

  Date: 10 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/11-civil-war-exhibition

  University of Leicester staff and students have contributed research expertise and advice to a new exhibition at the National Civil War Centre in...

• Colonial Countryside project featured on A Place in the Country

  Date: 2 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-country-houses

  ITV programme explores research into connections between English country houses, Africa, the Caribbean and East India Company.

• Students embark on RAF Stories mission

  Date: 6 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/06-students-embark-raf-stories-mission

  History students at the University of Leicester have teamed up with the RAF Museum, Cosford and students at De Montfort University for a community...

• Telling the story of Leicestershire’s first university

  Date: 16 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/17-gordon-campbell-lecture

  Professor Gordon Campbell is delivering a lecture on the history of the University of Leicester.

• New online resource for local historians

  Date: 13 Sep 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/september/new-online-resource-for-local-historians

  A new website makes available all the PhD theses completed by students at the Centre for English Local History.

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

  Date: 25 Apr 2017

  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...

• Student project explores the experiences of women who entered into mixed Black Caribbean and White British relationships in Leicester between 1948 and the 1970s

  Date: 28 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/student-project-explores-the-experiences-of-women-who-entered-into-mixed-black-caribbean-and-white-british-relationships-in-leicester-between-1948-and-the-1970s

  A local mature student studying at our University is keen to hear from women willing to share information about relationships they are in/have had...

• How forensic statistics nailed the identity of the Last Plantagenet

  Date: 21 Mar 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/how-forensic-statistics-nailed-the-identity-of-the-2018last-plantagenet2019

  A Leicester historian who carried out a genealogical study of King Richard III will give a talk on Tuesday 28 March at the University’s Centre for...