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History and campus
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history
See how far we’ve come since we were first founded as Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College in 1921 - from getting our Royal Charter in 1957 to the discovery of Richard III’s remains in 2012.
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Events in Leicester this October 2017 for Black History Month
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/04/events-in-leicester-this-october-2017-for-black-history-month/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2017 Phoenix Square marks Black History Month with a series of films programmed by local arts organisation Serendipity, in partnership with the University of Leicester, a one-off...
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New University film, 'Revisiting the Harms of Hate', available now
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/revisiting-harms-hate-film
The sequel to a celebrated short film, produced by the University of Leicester, exploring the impact of hate crime is now available to watch.
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The history of Leicesters printing press
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/the-history-of-leicesters-printing-press
In a feature entitled 'Printing in Leicester', Dr John Hinks from the Centre for Urban History has discussed the ups and downs of Leicester's printing press throughout history.
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New videos help mark 50th anniversary of Department of Media and Communication
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/new-videos-help-mark-50th-anniversary-of-department-of-media-and-communication
2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the University's Centre for Mass Communication Research – the first Centre of its kind studying mass communication and birthplace of the UK’s first media and communications Master’s degree.
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Women’s history
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/womens-history/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 Europeana has themed galleries relating to women’s history month.
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Oral history: Women’s Liberation Movement
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/oral-history-womens-liberation-movement/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Recordings of 14 interviews done to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020.
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An LGBTQ+ history project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/09/an-lgbtq-history-project/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2022 Paud’s Pins – an LGBTQ+ history project An LGBT community archive which comprises over 100 badges belonging to former Gay’s the Word bookshop manager Paud Hegarty.
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The history of genetic fingerprinting
https://le.ac.uk/dna-fingerprinting/history
Read about the history of genetic fingerprinting, and Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys' journey from Oxford to Leicester to beyond genetic fingerprinting.
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History
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision/history
Find your research degree supervisor in History at Leicester.