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• Leicester alumni recognised in New Year Honours 2022

  Date: 5 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/new-year-honours

  Outstanding achievements by University of Leicester alumni have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List for 2022.

• Digging for Britain: Leicester Archaeology projects to feature on BBC

  Date: 4 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/digging-for-britain

  Projects led by Leicester archaeologists are to be showcased on the new series of BBC TWO’s primetime TV series Digging for Britain in the New Year.

• The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters

  Date: 16 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code

  Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season.

• New resource strips everyday Roman handwriting bare

  Date: 7 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/latinnow-manual

  A new open-access resource to help researchers study Roman handwriting has been released.

• Extraordinary Roman mosaic and villa discovered beneath farmer's field in Rutland

  Date: 25 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/rutland-mosaic

  Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK.

• Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright to share personal story of resilience at Literary Leicester event

  Date: 20 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/fred-daguiar

  Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright will be giving the University of Leicester an exclusive insight into his personal story of...

• Leicester to showcase humanities research at 2021 Being Human festival

  Date: 11 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/being-human

  University of Leicester experts from disciplines as diverse as English literature, archaeology and criminology – and a whole lot more – have...

• Potatoes and Peppa Pig: Young writers channel Leicester playwright

  Date: 17 Sep 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/edna-welthorpe-winners

  A spoof letter of complaint written by a London school pupil has won a competition inspired by Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

• Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life

  Date: 13 Aug 2021

  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...

• Thrown to the Lions? New evidence revealed for the use of lions during executions in Roman Britain

  Date: 8 Aug 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/roman-lion-handle

  Archaeologists in Leicester have discovered an elaborately-decorated Roman bronze key handle portraying the execution of captives in the arena by...