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  • Thought piece: The problem with Apollo

    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,...

  • Baby pterodactyls could fly from birth

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/12-baby-pterodactyls-flying-from-birth

    A breakthrough discovery has found that pterodactyls, extinct flying reptiles also known as pterosaurs, had a remarkable ability – they could fly...

  • Students present youth violence solutions to the Home Office

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/07-students-home-office-youth-violence-challenge

    On Wednesday 29 May, four of our students visited the Home Office to present their proposed solution to the problem of youth violence following...

  • Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

    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

    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.

  • New battlefields: the reality of space warfare

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/30-new-battlefields-reality-space-warfare

    Dr Bleddyn Bowen from the School of History, Politics and International Relations was interviewed by Forces Network for a special feature on the...

  • Leicester to host national conference on Black British history

    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...

  • Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library

    Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a...

  • New research reveals the man behind Samuel Pepys’s love for portraits

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/27-samuel-pepys-portraits

    Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist who meticulously documented his life in 1660s London, also documented himself in other ways – through portraits.

  • The Stansted 15 in conversation at Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/19-stansted-15-round-table

    Join two members of the Stansted 15 for a round table discussion about the rights of asylum seekers and migrants.
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