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• 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: 14/10/2019 00:00:00

  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.

• Free public event explores the 1911 ‘All India’ cricket tour of England

  Date: 30/09/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/30-cricket-event

  A fascinating chapter in cricket history will be explored at a free public event on Tuesday 1 October when Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate...

• Hitler’s anti-semitism to be explored in public lecture by leading historian

  Date: 26/09/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/26-hitler-lecture

  Author and historian Professor Sir Richard J Evans will visit the University of Leicester on Thursday 3 October to deliver the annual Aubrey...

• Civil War exhibition draws on Leicester expertise

  Date: 11/09/2019 00:00:00

  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...

• Thought piece: The problem with Apollo

  Date: 17/07/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-problem-with-apollo

  As the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface approaches, Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations,...

• Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

  Date: 23/05/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/23-enderby-iron-age-bark-shield

  A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, the only one of its kind ever found...

• Colonial Countryside project featured on A Place in the Country

  Date: 03/05/2019 00:00:00

  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.

• Leicester to host national conference on Black British history

  Date: 17/04/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-black-british-history-workshop

  The University of Leicester and the Centre for New Writing is set to host the prestigious Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ 10th Black British...