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• New report shows UK ‘poorly prepared’ to reach net-zero carbon economy

  Date: 15 Feb 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/just-transition

  The UK Government must take urgent action to deliver a ‘just transition’ for workers as the country shifts towards a greener economy, according to...

• Local democracy in peril, warns Leicester academic

  Date: 22 Jan 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/january/local-democracy

  The threat to local democracy in the UK is the subject of a video interview with a University of Leicester academic on a top UK politics website.

• Declining local paper sales are a danger to democracy

  Date: 9 Oct 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/october/local-papers

  Action needs to be taken to prevent a crisis for local democracy as a result of the dramatic decline in local press readership, a Leicester...

• Animal mummies unwrapped: hi-res 3D X-rays reveal secrets of life and death in ancient Egypt

  Date: 19 Aug 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/august/animal-mummies

  Three mummified animals from ancient Egypt have been digitally unwrapped and dissected by researchers from the University of Leicester and...

• Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes

  Date: 10 Jun 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/colonial-countryside

  Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity.

• Digital life during the lockdown

  Date: 14 May 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/digital-apps

  Virtual social apps are helping us make do as best we can in lonely, desperate times.

• Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize

  Date: 3 May 2020

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/cricket-country-shortlisted

  A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the...

• Trident and Triremes: funding for research into nuclear weapons and Ancient Greece

  Date: 10 Dec 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/10-erc-grants

  Two University of Leicester academics have received more than three and a half million euros from the European Research Council for major projects...

• Plutarch’s domestic life explored in public lecture by expert in ancient history

  Date: 20 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/20-plutarch-talk

  Ancient Greek writer Plutarch is the subject of a free public lecture at the University of Leicester on 26 November.

• Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight

  Date: 11 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/11-dickens-lecture

  Charles Dickens’ strained marriage is the subject of a free public lecture presented on Wednesday 20 November 2019 by our Victorian Studies Centre.