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• Leicester historians guest edit Centenary journal edition

  Date: 12/10/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/howard-journal

  Leading historians from the University of Leicester have guest edited a special Centenary issue of the prestigious Howard Journal of Crime and...

• University of Leicester kicks off Centenary celebrations

  Date: 01/09/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/centenary-launch

  The University of Leicester kicked off the celebrations marking its Centenary year today (Wednesday).

• Paralympic Gold for Leicester sports scholar

  Date: 29/08/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/nick-cummins-paralympics-gold

  University of Leicester History PhD student and sports scholar Nick Cummins has won Gold as part of Great Britain’s Wheelchair Rugby squad at the...

• Two new Heads of School announced

  Date: 02/08/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/new-cssah-heads

  Two new Heads of School have been appointed within the University of Leicester’s College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (CSSAH).

• University historian drives successful campaign for Leicestershire flag

  Date: 20/07/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/leicestershire-flag

  The county of Leicestershire has ended its 1,000-year wait for an official flag, thanks to the work of a historian based at the University of...

• National award for Queer Heritage and Collections Network

  Date: 02/07/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/queer-heritage

  A partnership supporting museums and heritage bodies to reveal and publicly present LGBTQ+ histories – of which the University of Leicester is a...

• Sports scholar picked for Tokyo Paralympic squad

  Date: 07/06/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/nick-cummins-paralympic-squad

  University of Leicester History PhD student and sports scholar Nick Cummins has been selected in Great Britain’s Wheelchair Rugby squad for this...

• €2 million awarded for Leicester expert’s research

  Date: 09/12/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/dailey-grant

  A prestigious €2 million research grant has been awarded to Dr Erin Thomas Dailey, a lecturer in the School of History, Politics & International...

• Links between historic places, colonialism and slavery revealed

  Date: 22/09/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/links-between-historic-places-colonialism-and-slavery-revealed

  Connections between 93 historic places and colonialism and historic slavery have been revealed by the National Trust today, for the first time.

• New archive shares insight to Attenborough refugees’ life

  Date: 12/09/2020 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/attenborough-helga-bejach-orphan-college-house

  An archive of previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters from the family of Helga Bejach has been loaned to the University of...