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• Turi King returns to our screens with DNA Family Secrets

  Date: 18 Sep 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/dna-family-secrets

  Professor of Genetics Turi King returns to our screens on September 27th on BBC Two at 9pm for another heart wrenching series of DNA Family Secrets

• “Richard III is a good conversation opener…”

  Date: 7 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/sarah-hainsworth

  Professor Sarah Hainsworth OBE, looks back at the most thrilling chapter of her career.

• Getting the Richard III discovery team back together 10 years on

  Date: 6 Sep 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/richard-iii-podcast

  The team behind the discovery and identification of the remains of King Richard III has reunited for a podcast series.

• Discovery of King Richard III’s remains named as one of the decade’s ‘extraordinary discoveries’

  Date: 30 Dec 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/king-richard-iii-remains-named-extraordinary-discoveries

  The discovery and identification of King Richard III’s remains by leading academics at the University of Leicester have been named as one of the...

• Celebrating 35 years of DNA fingerprinting

  Date: 8 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/10-celebrating-35-years-of-dna-fingerprinting

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• Richard III’s discovery takes to the stage at the Royal Institution

  Date: 23 Nov 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/november/23-richard-iii-royal-institution-haldene-lecture

  Richard III geneticist Professor Turi King to give prestigious JBS Haldane Lecture on Monday 26 November 2018.

• Richard III exhibition to appear for first time in Ireland

  Date: 22 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/richard-iii-exhibition-to-appear-for-first-time-in-ireland

  The ‘Richard III Discovered’ exhibition, led by Professor Turi King from our Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, is arriving next week for...

• Leicester geneticist to deliver Richard III talk at international conference

  Date: 20 Jun 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-geneticist-to-deliver-richard-iii-talk-at-international-conference

  Professor Turi King (pictured) from our Department of Genetics and School of Archaeology and Ancient History will be giving a Special Plenary...

• 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...

• Free online course offers unique insights into the time of Richard III

  Date: 6 Feb 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/free-online-course-offers-unique-insights-into-the-time-of-richard-iii

  As the second anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III approaches in March, our University is relaunching its highly popular online course...