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The Bloody Business of the Bloody Code: Dissecting the Criminal Corpse. By Elizabeth Hurren
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/03/bloody-business-bloody-code/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 3, 2016 Imagine hearing local gossip that a notorious murderer was about to be executed, and that everyone in the vicinity of a homicide was planning to turn out to see the violent culprit...
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Convicts, Collecting and Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/27/convicts-collecting-and-knowledge-production-in-the-nineteenth-century/
Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on July 27, 2015 In previous blogs, I have explored some of the circulations and connections that linked nations, colonies and empires, and wove together practices of punishment and penal labour across polities and imperial spaces.
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AboutUs
https://le.ac.uk/top-links-about-us
Leicester probably started as a Celtic settlement. It was the capital of the local Celtic tribe, the Coriletavi. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and they captured Leicestershire by 47 AD. The Romans built a fort at Leicester in 48 AD.
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Mick Herron, Bernadine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal headline 2023 Literary Leicester festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/literary-leicester
The programme for Literary Leicester, the University of Leicester's annual free literary festival, has been announced today. Literary Leicester will take place between Wednesday 22 March and Saturday 25 March at the university and other venues across the city.
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Ambitious new UK project to transform human disease modelling
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/november/cancer-therapies-leicester-research-models
A major new initiative involving University of Leicester experts aims to redefine human-based research models for greater understanding of disease and the acceleration of new medicines
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Gary Willars
https://le.ac.uk/people/gary-willars
The academic profile of Dr Gary Willars, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of Leicester
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Friends and supporters of the Centre
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/about/friends-supporters
The Stanley Burton Centre relies on gifts in order to continue our work, expand our resources and support our students. Find out how you can support the Centre and what your donations will contribute towards.
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Suggested reading for Film Studies students
https://le.ac.uk/film/study/undergraduate/suggested-reading-for-film-studies-students
Keen to get started? This page includes suggestions for texts and films you might explore in preparation for your degree.
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Leicester researcher contributes to space arts odyssey
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-researcher-contribute-to-space-arts-odyssey
ESA and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (pictured), with the BBK Foundation, are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Spanish arts centre with a performance of Chasmata, a journey to Mars through contemporary art, music and architecture.
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Games Masters students to run video game tournament to be broadcast live
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/games-master2019s-students-to-run-video-game-tournament-to-be-broadcast-live
University of Leicester video gamers are to go head-to-head against local rivals De Montfort University in the first in a new series of derby eSports matches.