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• University holds series of public events to mark Leicester’s migration history

  Date: 22 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/leicester-migration-events

  The University of Leicester is working in conjunction with partners to hold five public events on the recent history of migration to the city.

• 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.

• Professor Clare Anderson appointed as trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich

  Date: 28 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/clare-anderson

  The University of Leicester’s Professor Clare Anderson has been appointed by the Prime Minister as one of six new Trustees of the Royal Museums...

• 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...

• Holocaust Memorial Day: The catalyst for change

  Date: 27 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/holocaust-memorial-day

  Thursday, 27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day, a time to reflect on the past to safeguard the future.

• 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.