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Politics of the International Drug Trade
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl3142
Module code: PL3142 The illegal drug trade has been estimated to take up almost 1% of all trade on Earth.
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Leicester choir wins University Gospel Choir of the Year competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/leicester-choir-wins-university-gospel-choir-of-the-year-competition
Leicester University Voices (LUV), a choir comprising members of the Leicester University Gospel Choir (LUGC) has won the national finals of the University Gospel Choir of the Year competition, which took place on Saturday 14 March at the Hippodrome, North London.
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COP26: Leicester University Chorus perform in aid of Music Declares Emergency movement
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/cop26-chorus
A student group choir at the University of Leicester have joined forces with musicians and organisations around the world to highlight the damage of climate change.
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Anti-bullying
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/20/anti-bullying/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 20, 2015 R ecent research from the TUC from a YouGov survey recorded nearly one third of people who responded had suffered bullying.
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Faraday Institution Honours Leicester Team for Battery Recycling Innovation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/faraday-institution-honours-battery-recycling-innovation
University of Leicester chemists recognised with a Highly Commended Faraday Institution Community Award for Innovation for patent-pending technology that enables direct recycling of black mass within the UK, reducing reliance on exports and supporting domestic circularity of...
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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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The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter
The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...
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The hosiery industry
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/the-hosiery-industry
Leicester is famous for its garment factories and has a rich history of work within the hosiery industry. Learn more about this history, including working hours, apprenticeships and the industry's migrant workforce.
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Mahendra Chouhan
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/mahendra-chouhan
We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mahendra Chouhan, a member of the cleaning staff at Space Park Leicester, who passed away on 16 February 2024.
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Archive
https://le.ac.uk/medicine/about/leicester-medical-society/meetings-lectures/archive
Listen to a selection of recordings of previous lectures hosted by the Leicester Medical Society.