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• Before Highcross: Vote now for research teams that solved Leicester’s shopping centre history mysteries

  Date: 12 Dec 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/highcross-dig

  Archaeologists who examined the ground beneath Leicester’s shopping mall district are up for a research award – and they need your vote.

• Rutland Roman villa: how we found one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK

  Date: 7 Dec 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/rutland-roman

  The discovery of a previously unknown Roman villa in rural Rutland during the 2020 lockdown was one of the archaeological stories of the year.

• Hidden inscriptions hint at mystery medieval woman’s identity

  Date: 29 Nov 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/insular-manuscript-medieval-inscriptions

  Drawings and the name ‘Eadburg’ found scratched into early medieval manuscript by University of Leicester PhD student.

• Dickens codebreakers recognised at Higher Education ‘Oscars’

  Date: 18 Nov 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/the-awards-2022

  The Dickens Code project, led by the University of Leicester in collaboration with the University of Foggia, takes home a Times Higher Education...

• Two Leicester archaeologists win prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize

  Date: 21 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/leverhulme-prize

  Two academics from the University of Leicester’s School of Archaeology and Ancient History have each been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme...

• University’s Centre for Regional and Local History launches new research spaces

  Date: 4 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/local-history

  University of Leicester’s Centre for English Local History will relaunch as the Centre for Regional and Local History from Wednesday (5 October).

• University of Leicester celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/adrian-mole

  University of Leicester is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged...

• 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.

• UN space threats group to hear from University of Leicester expert

  Date: 15 Sep 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/un-space

  The United Nations is to hear from a University of Leicester expert on space politics on how to regulate military activity in space.

• Leicester archaeologists to offer hands on experience at British Science Festival

  Date: 13 Sep 2022

  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.