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In my prison notebook
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/08/29/in-my-prison-notebook/
Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on August 29, 2016 Last year I came across a rare archival find: multiple editions of a 19th century prison newspaper covertly produced by Russian inmates between 1890 and 1905.
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Shaun Cowley
https://le.ac.uk/people/shaun-cowley
The academic profile of Professor Shaun Cowley, Professor of Molecular Biology at University of Leicester
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Greek History in 40 Lives
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah2044
Module code: AH2044 Why are some people remembered and others forgotten by history? How much do we really know about the ‘famous names’ of ancient Greece? How can we reconstruct the lives of ‘ordinary’ Greeks? Which modern scholars have influenced whose lives...
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Greek History in 40 Lives
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ah2044
Module code: AH2044 Why are some people remembered and others forgotten by history? How much do we really know about the ‘famous names’ of ancient Greece? How can we reconstruct the lives of ‘ordinary’ Greeks? Which modern scholars have influenced whose lives...
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Greek History in 40 Lives
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah2044
Module code: AH2044 Why are some people remembered and others forgotten by history? How much do we really know about the ‘famous names’ of ancient Greece? How can we reconstruct the lives of ‘ordinary’ Greeks? Which modern scholars have influenced whose lives...
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Part of the students’ union: reflections from Strawbs founder David Cousins
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/david-cousins-interview
Strawbs founder David Cousins is interviewed by the University of Leicester about his career and his time as a student.
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Leicester scientists take sustainable energy research to Parliament
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/stem-for-britain
PhD student Manon Lachmann joins supervisor Dr Patricia Rodriguez-Macia to showcase green chemistry to a panel of experts and politicians on 4 March
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Holy Wars in Sacred Lands: Conflict and Coexistence during the Crusades
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2367
Module code: HS2367 The Crusades were undoubtedly one of the most famous episodes of religious conflict and a central phenomenon of the High Middle Ages.
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Leicester Abbey and the missing remains of Cardinal Wolsey righthand man to Henry VIII
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/leicester-abbey-and-the-missing-remains-of-cardinal-wolsey-right-hand-man-to-henry-viii
The discovery of Richard III and the subsequent research into his remains has helped to acquaint members of the public with the nation’s history – and now some have set their sights on the search for another lost historical figure in Leicester.
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Adult Learners’ Week Special: A Handful of Dust
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/25/adult-learners-week-special-a-handful-of-dust/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on March 25, 2014 facsimiledustjackets.com/cgi-bin/fdj455/5072.html The Book Group is delighted to be taking part in Leicester libraries’ Adult Learners’ Week, which runs form 14-20 June 2014.