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Dawn of the Anthropocene concept
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept
Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely available for the first time with the first full English translation of Buffon’s concise masterpiece The Epochs of Nature,...
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Tuition fees
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/fees-funding/tuition-fees
Useful information on tuition fees for our postgraduate courses, including details on campus-based courses, distance learning courses and finance advice.
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Offer Holder Hub
https://le.ac.uk/study/undergraduates/offer-holders
We don’t want you to miss out on the benefits of attending a University of Leicester Offer Holder Day, which is why we’ve moved everything online.
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Impossible Desires: the Novels and Films of Shamim Sarif
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/06/25/impossible-desires-the-novels-and-films-of-shamim-sarif/
Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on June 25, 2015 As part of my Queer Diasporas project, I’ve been researching the work of the still not too widely known British novelist and filmmaker Shamim Sarif, whose existence I’ve been...
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The Dreadful Burning of the City of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/08/the-dreadful-burning-of-the-city-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016 The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events...
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25 years ago Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys solved the mystery of what happened to notorious Nazi war criminal
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/25-years-ago-professor-sir-alec-jeffreys-solved-the-mystery-of-what-happened-to-notorious-nazi-war-criminal
25 years ago yesterday (18 November, 1990), the Leicester Mercury ran an article about genetic fingerprinting pioneer Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, covering his sensational breakthrough to help identify the Auschwitz 'Angel of Death'.
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Leicester secures a Rugby Varsity double
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/leicester-secures-a-rugby-varsity-double-against-de-montfort-university
The University of Leicester's women and men's Rugby teams have secured a double Varsity victory over players from De Montfort University during matches played on Wednesday 18 March.
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Principles of Banking
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/af7093
Module code: EC7093 The latest global financial crisis caught many economists and regulators by surprise. Indeed, the crisis has revealed an inadequate appreciation of banking risks not only by the industry itself but also by central bank economists and other regulators.
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Could human beings one day live on Mars
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/could-human-beings-one-day-live-on-mars
The Mars One Mission hopes to create a human settlement on Mars by the year 2025 allowing people to live on the Red Planet, albeit in an enclosed environment.
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Virtual exhibition finds students ‘more determined than ever’ as lockdown ends
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/images-of-research
The University of Leicester’s Doctoral College is set to reveal a selection of striking images in a virtual photography exhibition capturing the passion of its PhD students and Research Staff.