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Travelling to Leicester from abroad
https://le.ac.uk/study/international-students/travel-to-leicester-from-abroad
Leicester is conveniently located in the centre of England and is within easy reach of several major airports, as well as having a direct train service to London St Pancras.
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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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News and events
https://le.ac.uk/urban-history/news-and-events
Take a look at the news and events from The Centre of Urban History at The University of Leicester.
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Sole2Soul: Narrate, Curate, Rejuvenate
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/projects/sole2soul
Sole2Soul promotes meaningful intergenerational exchange between “silver champions” (project participants aged over 55) and teenagers about artefacts from the Boot and Shoe exhibit at Harborough Museum.
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HumanKind
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/humankind
We are looking afresh at Calke Abbey’s past, reassessing the stories told about this place and exploring their potential to foster more meaningful connections.
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University of Leicester strengthens ‘crucial’ space links in the USA
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/united-states-space-links
University of Leicester's Space Park Leicester has further strengthened its collaboration with the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and NASA, building crucial links with the United States.
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University library collections reveal coronation celebrations across time in Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-special-collections
An insight how coronations have been celebrated in Leicester in years past, courtesy of the University of Leicester Special Collections team.
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Refugee-turned-entrepreneur honoured by University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/nik-kotecha
An entrepreneur who found sanctuary in the East Midlands after fleeing a brutal overseas regime has been honoured by the University of Leicester.
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Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/ig-nobel-zalasiewicz
Professor Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, explains the research that won him an Ig Nobel Prize in 2023.
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Leicester’s showstopping chemist on his Bake-Off experiment
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/josh-smalley-bake-off
Dr Joshua Smalley speaks to the Press Office about rising to the occasion in the famous white tent