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• Leicester expertise supports new £14.5 million community heritage hub

  Date: 3 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/chester-house-estate

  Leicester researchers and students attended a ceremony to mark the official opening of a nationally-significant heritage site by the Princess...

• New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years

  Date: 28 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/herpes-genome

  Researchers have mapped the genetic structure of the herpes virus and, for the first time, traced its European origin back almost 5,000 years.

• Read all about it! Journalism students to work side-by-side with Leicester reporters

  Date: 26 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-mercury

  Leicester’s next generation of journalists will gain first-hand experience of local reporting as a result of a new partnership between the...

• Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site

  Date: 24 May 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leicester-cathedral-ulas

  The team behind the discovery of Richard III have resumed major archaeological excavations at Leicester Cathedral, close to where the King was found.

• Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean

  Date: 14 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/albatross-foraging

  The first large-scale study of its kind has uncovered more than 4,000 years’ worth of distinctive foraging behaviour in a species once driven to...

• Engineering and Archaeology researchers to join forces against climate crisis at international conference

  Date: 9 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/engineering-the-past

  An interdisciplinary team of researchers will look to identify ways of tackling the climate crisis at an international conference hosted at the...

• 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.

• 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.

• Leicester student teams up with influencer to host charity football match for Help the Homeless

  Date: 22 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/charity-football-match

  A charity football match between two local gyms was played in the name of charity at the University of Leicester’s Roger Bettles Sports Centre...