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• 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.

• University of Leicester at the forefront of the fight against far right extremism

  Date: 18 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/19-national-action

  New research provides invaluable insight into far-right political group National Action.

• Links between historic places, colonialism and slavery revealed

  Date: 22 Sep 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/september/links-between-historic-places-colonialism-and-slavery-revealed

  Connections between 93 historic places and colonialism and historic slavery have been revealed by the National Trust today, for the first time.

• Standing Together Against Hate new animation highlights the importance of challenging hate hostility and harassment in Higher Education

  Date: 4 Jul 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/standing-together-against-hate-new-animation-to-be-showcased-at-british-society-of-criminology-conference

  Professor Neil Chakraborti, Dr Stevie-Jade Hardy and Dr Chris Allen from our Centre for Hate Studies will be leading a roundtable discussion on...

• Workers rights How UK workers benefit from the EU

  Date: 10 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/workers-rights-how-uk-workers-benefit-from-the-eu

  With enough newspaper coverage to paper Buckingham Palace, you'd be forgiven for thinking that all aspects of the EU Referendum had already been...

• The economy will suffer Demetriades on Brexit

  Date: 13 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/the-economy-will-suffer-demetriades-on-brexit

  Given that a poll published in May showed than 88% of economists feared a long term fall in GDP if the UK left the single market, it's difficult...

• Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

  Date: 22 May 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/23-enderby-iron-age-bark-shield

  A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, the only one of its kind ever found...

• PhD student receives prestigious research grant

  Date: 2 Nov 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/phd-student-receives-prestigious-research-grant

  A PhD student has been awarded funding to investigate the ‘fingerprint’ of organic matter in the Carboniferous Bowland Shale.

• Ophthalmology researcher awarded prestigious prize

  Date: 31 Jan 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/ophthalmology-researcher-awarded-prestigious-prize

  A researcher from the University's Ulverscroft Eye Unit is the 25th recipient of the prestigious Vernon Prize Trophy for Ophthalmological...

• 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.