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  • Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016   When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.

  • Ig Nobel Prize-winning geologist on why rocks speak in tongues

    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.

  • Researcher lands £250k funding to continue investigation into DNA damage and its link to cancer

    A university researcher has been awarded a prestigious prize to continue her cutting-edge work to understand how the body responds to DNA damage that can ultimately lead to cancer.

  • Breast cancer research scoops international award

    Research by a University of Leicester PhD student into the side effects of breast cancer treatment have been internationally recognised

  • tribute

    Via, veritas, vita. A tribute to Jean Humphreys During several of our visits to see Jean when she was in the Nursing Home, she said to me in her inimitable Scottish way ‘I want you to preach me out’.

  • University library collections reveal coronation celebrations across time in Leicester

    An insight how coronations have been celebrated in Leicester in years past, courtesy of the University of Leicester Special Collections team.

  • Pioneering police detective David Baker awarded Honorary Degree

    The lead detective on the first criminal case to be solved using DNA fingerprinting has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Leicester at a ceremony today (Wednesday 19 January).

  • Book Group: Pigeon Pie

    Summary of the Waugh Book Group discussion of Nancy Mitford's Pigeon Pie, Saturday 16 May 2015

  • Physical Geography and GIS

    Find your research degree supervisor in Physical Geography and GIS at Leicester.

  • Black Mischief in the Albatross Modern Library

    Posted by in Waugh and Words on May 9, 2019 Modernist scholar and editor of our forthcoming Black Mischief volume Dr Naomi Milthorpe has been researching with our project partners at the Harry Ransom Center.

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