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• University of Leicester appoints Science Museum Principal Curator for key leadership post

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/tilly-blyth

  The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator will join the University of Leicester as its new Head of the School of Museum Studies.

• BBC Book of the Week author set to inspire our English students

  Date: 16 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/kit-de-waal-english-leicester

  The author of this week’s BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week will be inspiring students on the University of Leicester’s English course, from September.

• 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.

• BBC drama novelist residency set to inspire English students

  Date: 9 Jun 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/kit-de-waal

  The novelist behind a new uplifting BBC television drama will be sharing the skills behind her writing with students at the University of Leicester.

• 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.

• Best-selling crime author visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”!

  Date: 29 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/val-mcdermid

  Best-selling crime author Val McDermid visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”

• Leicester author shares untold story of Mary Attenborough

  Date: 25 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/mary-attenborough

  A Leicester historian says he is ‘absolutely certain’ that Mary Attenborough would have been front and centre in helping refugees and asylum...

• Literary endowment fund will create new ‘writer in residence’ and professorship

  Date: 24 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/jean-humphreys

  Literary endowment fund will create new ‘writer in residence’ and professorship at Leicester University

• Literary Festival returns to Leicester

  Date: 23 Feb 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/literary-leicester

  World-renowned authors will be heading to Leicester for one of the biggest and most diverse literary festivals in the East Midlands, taking place...