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• Academic co-curates special exhibition on Joe Orton

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/academic-co-curates-special-exhibition-on-joe-orton

  The National Justice Museum has launched its first-ever crowdfunding campaign to celebrate the work of Leicester playwright, Joe Orton.

• Victorian Studies Centre marks 50th anniversary with convivial evening celebrating the works of Charles Dickens

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/victorian-studies-centre-marks-50th-anniversary-with-convivial-evening-celebrating-the-works-of-charles-dickens

  The University of Leicester’s Victorian Studies Centre is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a convivial Dickensian evening on 22 November, which will see an international team of academics speak on the life and works of author Charles Dickens.

• Professor Robert Winston discusses sciences dark side

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/professor-robert-winston-to-discuss-science2019s-2018dark-side2019

  A full report on Lord Winston's talk now available here The eminent medical scientist and television presenter Professor Robert Winston is to give a glimpse at the ‘dark side’ of scientific discovery at the next Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture for the University...

• Research explores evolution of Chinese anti-ship missiles

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/research-explores-evolution-of-chinese-anti-ship-missiles

  Dr James Johnson from our School of History, Politics and International Relations has published new research in the Comparative Strategy Journal outlining the evolution of Chinese anti-ship missiles (ASMs) and how these weapons have intensified U.

• Quarter-of-a-century plant blooming takes centre stage in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/agave

  A rare plant that flowers once every 25 to 30 years has finally bloomed in the University of Leicester’s Botanic Garden.

• New effects in ideal gases solve mathematical mystery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/new-effects-in-ideal-gases-solve-mathematical-mystery

  A Mathematician from our Department of Mathematics, Professor Alexander Gorban, along with a physicist from ETH Zürich, Ilya Karlin, have challenged traditional concepts of micro and macro worlds and demonstrated how ideal gas unexpectedly exhibits capillarity properties.

• Battlefield feeling changing perceptions of masculinity in war

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/2018battlefield-feeling2019-changes-perceptions-of-masculinity-in-war

  A new project led by Dr Holly Furneaux from the School of English will shake up traditional views of masculinity on the battlefield by exploring the heroism of the English ‘Boy Captain’ Audley Lempriere, who gave his life fighting during the Crimean War.

• University of Leicester marks Black History Month 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/black-history-month

  The University of Leicester is holding a number of events to mark Black History Month, alongside its Students’ Union and Attenborough Arts Centre.

• University buildings renamed after English Premier League Champions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/university-buildings-renamed-after-english-premier-league-champions

  For one day only our University will rename its buildings after the Leicester City Football squad in celebration of their remarkable Premier League success and to show its support on the day of the team’s victory parade.

• Professor Corinne Fowler releases new book Our Island Stories: Country Walks through Colonial Britain

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/may/colonial-countryside

  University of Leicester’s Professor Corinne Fowler has released a new book published by Penguin exploring Great Britain’s countryside and its links to colonialism.