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• New Years Honours University links

  Date: 30 December 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-years-honours-university-links

  Members of our University have again been recognised in The Queen’s New Year’s Honours.

• History on the Box project sees students analyse and discuss TV and radio programmes from the past

  Date: 14 June 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/history-on-the-box-project-sees-students-analyse-and-discuss-tv-and-radio-programmes-from-the-past

  A new blog launched in the School of History sees postgraduate students analyse and discuss TV and radio programmes from the past.

• Literary Leicester 2017 highlights

  Date: 20 December 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/literary-leicester-2017-highlights

  Last month our annual Literary Leicester festival took place, featuring acclaimed literati guests, the dramatic arts and several school events.

• Social scientist joins crew of Tall Ship for D-Day landing commemoration

  Date: 26 May 2015

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/social-scientist-joins-crew-of-tall-ship-for-d-day-landing-commemoration

  Dr Jim McDermott (pictured), an Associate Tutor with the School of Management and a member of The Royal British Legion, is setting sail to...

• New cave discoveries shed light on Native and European religious encounters in the Americas

  Date: 18 July 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/new-cave-discoveries-shed-light-on-native-and-european-religious-encounters-in-the-americas

  A project led by archaeologists from the British Museum and our University has discovered remarkable evidence which shows how the first...

• Leicester historian takes Hairy Bikers through Yorkshires past pubs

  Date: 13 April 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicester-historian-takes-hairy-bikers-through-yorkshire2019s-past-pubs

  A new BBC series following the popular Hairy Bikers on a tour of historic British pubs features a historian from our University in its opening...

• Thought piece: The problem with Apollo

  Date: 16 July 2019

  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,...

• University of Leicester at the forefront of the fight against far right extremism

  Date: 18 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/19-national-action

  New research provides invaluable insight into far-right political group National Action.

• Links between historic places, colonialism and slavery revealed

  Date: 22 September 2020

  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.

• Research reveals earliest evidence yet of huge hippos in Britain

  Date: 4 October 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/hippo-fossil

  Palaeobiologists have unearthed the earliest evidence yet of hippos in the UK.