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  An archive of previously unpublished photographs, documents and letters from the family of Helga Bejach has been loaned to the University of...

• Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes

  Date: 10/06/2020 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/colonial-countryside

  Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity.

• Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize

  Date: 03/05/2020 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/cricket-country-shortlisted

  A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the...

• Events to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day

  Date: 23/01/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/january/23-holocaust-memorial-day

  The University of Leicester hosts a series of free public events this weekend to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Monday 27 January.

• Dr Prashant Kidambi's cricket book makes 'Best of Year' list

  Date: 06/12/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/06-cricket-book

  Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History, has made it into the Financial Times Sports Books of the Year list with his...

• Professor Richard Thomas and Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney go 'Digging for Britain' on BBC4

  Date: 27/11/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/27-digging-for-britain

  Professor Richard Thomas from our School of Archaeology and Ancient History features on tonight's episode of Digging for Britain as series 2...

• Fantastic Beasts and Where I Found Them

  Date: 15/11/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/15-fantastic-beasts-and-where-i-found-them

  Join us for the first in a revamped series of Professorial Inaugural Lectures as Professor Richard Thomas discusses his research into human-animal...

• Free comedy theatre show on Victorian mental health treatments

  Date: 04/11/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/04-time-travel-treatment

  Audiences are being invited to take a step back into the Victorian Era on Thursday 7 November for a free event at the University of Leicester...

• Civil rights expert to deliver annual American Studies lecture

  Date: 13/10/2019 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-american-studies-lecture

  An expert on the history of the Black Power movement will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Leicester on Monday 21 October.