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  • Richard III and the legacy of his re-discovery

    Mathew Morris (pictured), Site Director for the Grey Friars Project, University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), has written an article for the British Academy reflecting on his time working on the discovery of Richard III.

  • Turned off at Execution Dock: Thames Scenery in the City of the Gallows. By Richard Ward

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on April 25, 2016   Eighteenth-century London has, with good reason, been called “the city of the gallows”.

  • The World Wide Web is 30 years old

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2019 On March 12, 1989, British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee submitted his proposal for what would become the World Wide Web to his boss at the European Organization for...

  • Turi King returns to our screens with DNA Family Secrets

    Professor of Genetics Turi King returns to our screens on September 27th on BBC Two at 9pm for another heart wrenching series of DNA Family Secrets

  • The Fall of the Roman Republic

    Module code: AH3081 The last century of the Republic has always been one of the most fascinating and heavily debated periods in Roman history and, indeed, European history more generally.

  • ‘Strangers in the land’?

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 8, 2016 Our current exhibition, ‘”Strangers in the land”? Impressions of India’ traces the history of the British in India from the early 17 th century to the turn of the 20 th .

  • Engineering Building listed as one of the worlds best unsung buildings

    Our University's internationally famous Grade II* listed Engineering Building has been included in The Guardian's 'Castles in the sky' list, highlighting some of the world's best unsung buildings.

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • 2011 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 1, 2012 http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/ Just released by the U.S. Department of State.  Items online from 1999 onwards.

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

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