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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.

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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.

Christina Cazalet

https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/christina-cazalet

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the death of Christina Cazalet, Undergraduate Programmes Administrator in the School of Psychology. Christina passed away after a short illness on Sunday 24 May. She is survived by her husband, Michael.

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.

Academics and Leicester sports coaches team up in ERASMUS research project on ethics code for grassroots sport across Europe

https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/academics-and-leicester-sports-coaches-team-up-in-erasmus-research-project-on-ethics-code-for-grassroots-sport-across-europe

Leicester City Football Club led the way in professional football excellence in England in 2016, but now the public focus has shifted once more to football's problems – the depressing hooliganism stories from Euro 2016.