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Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/wordsworth-exhibition
A multi-media exhibition led by a team of academics at the University of Leicester has launched at the Wordsworth Museum – one of the Lake...
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Two new Heads of School announced
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/new-cssah-heads
Two new Heads of School have been appointed within the University of Leicester’s College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (CSSAH).
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University historian drives successful campaign for Leicestershire flag
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/leicestershire-flag
The county of Leicestershire has ended its 1,000-year wait for an official flag, thanks to the work of a historian based at the University of...
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National award for Queer Heritage and Collections Network
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/queer-heritage
A partnership supporting museums and heritage bodies to reveal and publicly present LGBTQ+ histories – of which the University of Leicester is a...
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Sports scholar picked for Tokyo Paralympic squad
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/nick-cummins-paralympic-squad
University of Leicester History PhD student and sports scholar Nick Cummins has been selected in Great Britain’s Wheelchair Rugby squad for this...
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Student competition brings Leicester playwright’s alter ego to life
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/edna-welthorpe-competition
A popular creative writing competition launched by the University of Leicester is once again open for entries – this year supported by the...
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Booker Prize-winner to join Literary Leicester Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/literary-leicester
Booker Prize-winner Marlon James will be headlining the revival of the Literary Leicester Festival.
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Nuclear expert sheds light on ‘War Factories’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/war-factories
A nuclear expert from the University of Leicester has featured on a new UKTV documentary covering the industry of conflict.
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EU at ‘critical point’ as Germany searches for Merkel successor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/eu-merkel
A leading economist has warned that German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor will have ‘big shoes to fill’ on the European stage, after...
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Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy
The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website.