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• Your Impact – 100 years of philanthropy and counting

  https://le.ac.uk/giving/impact-stories

  Your support impacts students' lives, fuels ground-breaking research and helps build a world-class environment for research and learning. Read our impact reports to see how much you have helped us to achieve.

• The story of skeletons

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/the-story-of-skeletons

  What links the narwhal’s tusk, ancient trilobites, Richard III (and his drinking habits), tumbleweed, an argonaut, and the outstretched fourth finger of a pterosaur? They are among the cast of characters that feature in a new book by University of Leicester professors Jan...

• How women shaped University history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/how-women-shaped-university-history

  The Special Collections team in the University’s Library has unearthed a selection of treasures from the University Archives providing an insight into the University’s history and revealing how women have helped shape the institution from its foundation to the present day.

• Urban life

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/urban-life

  Learn more about the collections about urban life in the East Midlands Oral History Archive.

• Colonialism, prison and mental health

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/natural-heritage/colonialism-prisons

  The University of Leicester in partnership with the University of Guyana and the Guyana Prison Service

• Pint of Science festival returns to Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/pint-of-science

  Tickets have launched for the world’s largest festival of public science talks, which will see more than 20 scientists take to the stage in venues across Leicester.

• University of Leicester celebrates 75th anniversary of Empire Windrush arrival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/june/windrush

  The University of Leicester is working with the city’s Caribbean community to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush.

• Bake Off host will make for Quite Interesting graduation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/bake-off-host-will-make-for-quite-interesting-graduation

  Those bowled over by Bake-Off this year will find plenty to celebrate at our graduation ceremonies this summer.

• Sensational discovery of previously unseen Adrian Mole diary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/sensational-discovery-of-previously-unseen-adrian-mole-diary

  Teenage intellectual Mole achieved fame in the 1980s for his astute, observational journal cataloguing middle class domestic life in a Leicester household. He has been cited by some critics as “a modern day Pepys.

• Visiting Fellows

  https://le.ac.uk/celi/visiting-fellows

  Details on the experience you need and the documents you need to submit to be eligable for Visiting Fellow status.