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• 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.

• Leicester research at national Festival of Social Science

  Date: 11 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/cartoonathon

  Three early-career researchers at the University of Leicester have joined forces with a multi-award winning education platform to deliver a unique...

• Research reveals earliest evidence yet of huge hippos in Britain

  Date: 4 Oct 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/hippo-fossil

  Palaeobiologists have unearthed the earliest evidence yet of hippos in the UK.

• 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...

• National award for Queer Heritage and Collections Network

  Date: 2 Jul 2021

  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...

• Inclusive curriculum will ensure “HE is fit for the 21st century”, says Leicester academic

  Date: 4 Jun 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/inclusive-education

  An inclusive curriculum will create a Higher Education system that is “fit for the 21st century”, a leading academic at the University of...