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  • Cider, the golden global glug.

    Posted by in Consuming Authenticities on October 7, 2015 Ethnographic research with craft cider-makers suggests that part of the authenticity of a craft cider derives from its staying true to the traditions of cider, as opposed to a “commercial cider”, a category often used...

  • Trailblazing astrophysicist and champion of women in science to deliver University of Leicester public lecture

    Two science superstars will converge at the University of Leicester for a special public lecture, next month.

  • New project to identify Jack the Rippers last known victim

    Members of the team who undertook genealogical and demographic research in relation to the discovery of the mortal remains of King Richard III have now been involved in a new project to identify the last known victim of Jack the Ripper – Mary Jane Kelly.

  • Leicester PhD student to discuss science diplomacy at World Science Forum

    As part of her RCUK policy fellowship at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Emmeline Ledgerwood (pictured), a postgraduate research student at the School of History, Politics and International Relations,  is representing POST at the World Science...

  • University of Leicester celebrates 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.

  • New Year Honours for University of Leicester Chancellor and Professor both leading the way in space science

    A space scientist, whose influence has reached throughout the solar system, and the University’s Chancellor, who encourages students to ‘reach for the stars’, are among this year’s recipients of New Year’s Honours.

  • Evelyn Waugh Newsletter in Special Collections

    Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on May 14, 2014   Well, it’s taken a while but we finally did it – the entire back-catalogue of the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter (1967-1989), Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies (1990-2010) and Evelyn Waugh Studies (2011-) is now...

  • NASA Mars Rover set for touchdown on Red Planet

    Space scientists around the world will hold their breath on Thursday as NASA’s latest mission to Mars attempts a daring landing on the Red Planet.

  • Romance to Ritual: Literary Transformations Of The Holy Grail

    Module code: EN7247 Perhaps no aspect of the Arthurian legend has been so doggedly investigated as the origin and development of the Holy Grail. This is due in part to a certain uneasiness with the shifting nature of the symbol itself.

  • Mapping vanished Leicester

    More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.

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