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Leicester archaeologists to offer hands on experience at British Science Festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/bsf-skeletal-secrets
Members of the public will be able to get up close and personal with human bones with University of Leicester archaeologists this weekend.
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BBC Book of the Week author set to inspire our English students
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.
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Leicester expertise supports new £14.5 million community heritage hub
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...
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New evidence traces herpes virus back almost 5,000 years
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.
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BBC drama novelist residency set to inspire English students
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.
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Read all about it! Journalism students to work side-by-side with Leicester reporters
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...
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Leicester archaeologists expand excavations at Leicester Cathedral site
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.
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Best-selling crime author visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”!
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/val-mcdermid
Best-selling crime author Val McDermid visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”
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Research reveals human-driven changes to distinctive foraging patterns in North Pacific Ocean
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...
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Leicester author shares untold story of Mary Attenborough
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...