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• Workers rights How UK workers benefit from the EU

  Date: 10 June 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/workers-rights-how-uk-workers-benefit-from-the-eu

  With enough newspaper coverage to paper Buckingham Palace, you'd be forgiven for thinking that all aspects of the EU Referendum had already been...

• The economy will suffer Demetriades on Brexit

  Date: 13 June 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/the-economy-will-suffer-demetriades-on-brexit

  Given that a poll published in May showed than 88% of economists feared a long term fall in GDP if the UK left the single market, it's difficult...

• Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

  Date: 22 May 2019

  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...

• Exhibition showcases fascinating relationship between India and Britain between 17th and 20th centuries

  Date: 23 June 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/exhibition-showcases-exhibition-showcases-2018fascinating-relationship2019-between-india-and-britain-between-17th-and-20th-centuries

  An exhibition running at our University traces the history of the British in India from the early 17th century to the turn of the 20th.

• Evelyn Waugh project will be ‘one of the great monuments of twenty-first century literary scholarship’

  Date: 16 September 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/17-evelyn-waugh-praise

  Praise from Times Literary Supplement for University of Leicester project to publish novelist Evelyn Waugh's entire output.

• Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes

  Date: 10 June 2020

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

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

• Sculptures come to life in new Night at the Museum exhibition

  Date: 20 January 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/sculptures-come-to-life-in-new-night-at-the-museum-exhibition-coming-to-the-university-of-leicester

  Our Attenborough Arts Centre is delighted to host the exhibition, Night in the Museum: Ryan Gander Curates the Arts Council Collection.

• Researcher explores the special skills required to be a medieval baker

  Date: 25 August 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/the-great-medieval-bake-off

  With The Great British Bake Off back on our screens and a University graduate taking part, many around campus are talking about the much-loved...

• COVID-19: New focus on indoor ventilation needed

  Date: 15 April 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/covid-19-airborne-transmission

  A group of leading virologists have expressed the need for improved indoor ventilation to combat airborne transmission of COVID-19.

• Internationally renowned novelist joins Leicester’s top academics to discuss why climate change has been banished from fiction books

  Date: 27 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/dr-amitav-ghosh

  Distinguished author and Booker prize nominee, Dr Amitav Ghosh, will join top scientists and a world-leading historian to explore how the arts and...