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• Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon

  University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.

• Caroline Lucas and ‘The Rest is History’ Podcast headline 2025 Literary Leicester festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/literature-festival-caroline-lucas-rest-is-history

  Literary Leicester is the University's free annual literature festival.

• International day marks the issues behind avoidable deaths

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/avoidable-deaths-network-international-awareness-day

  The third instalment of an annual global day of awareness of the issues around avoidable deaths takes place this week.

• Our space research highlights

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/space-research

  Our researchers are reaching for the stars when it comes to space research, our work in this area is also helping inform the way we live and adapt to our planet.

• Universities partnership brings economic benefits to Leicestershire in first year

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/up-partnership

  A partnership of universities in Leicester and Loughborough has, within its first year, brought benefits to local businesses, schoolchildren and international visitors across the region.

• A Historical Long View of Posthumous Harm: Comparing organ snatching to body-snatching. By Floris To

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/16/organ-and-body-snatching/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 16, 2016   Improper Procurement and Retention   Taking organs of dead children without parental permission at Alder Hey is a practice The Economist (2001) dubbed the ‘return of the body-snatchers’.

• Carbon dating and analysis

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/carbon-dating

  How old are the bones found under the Greyfriars church? Clearly they can’t be any more recent than the Dissolution of 1538. But if they are earlier than 1485, then they can’t be Richard’s remains.

• McCarthy's America: Domestic Anti-Communism in the USA, 1830-1990

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3649

  Module code: HS3649 Module Outline There are very few individuals who can boast having either entire historical eras or discrete historical phenomena named after them. US Senator Joseph “Tail Gunner Joe” McCarthy has both.

• Award-winning students demonstrate their employability to EU experts

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/award-winning-students-demonstrate-their-employability-to-eu-experts

  Two University of Leicester students have won the second edition of the EU Careers Challenge. Loren Cooper and Jean-Vincent Vallée were part of the winning team that were tasked with solving Europe’s challenges around the Digital Agenda.

• Space Park Leicester to benefit from new funding announcement

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/03-space-park-funding

  Space Park Leicester will receive £50,000 funding and form part of the new and innovative East Midlands Manufacturing Zones