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• First study examining pregnancy in the Viking Age: Pregnant women wearing martial helmets, fetuses set to avenge their fathers, but also a harsh world where not all newborns were given burial or born free 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/first-study-into-pregnancy-in-viking-age

  A new, interdisciplinary study is the first focused examination of pregnancy in the Viking Age.

• University of Leicester celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/adrian-mole

  University of Leicester is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾.

• Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: P

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/page/2/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• New Alzheimers Advance

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/new-alzheimer2019s-advance

  Work done at Leicester has helped to identify a new drug target for not only improving symptoms of brain degeneration – but also to extend the life-span of the terminally ill mice.

• Emoji is the fastest growing language

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode  and the launch of Emoj.li.

• Beehold our hivestar bumble abode

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/bee-hold-our-hive-star-bumble-abode

  Ahead of World Environment Day on Sunday 5 June, students at the University are helping to build replicas of insect natural habitats in two new locations in Leicester.

• Media features President and Vice-Chancellor speaking on gender equality campaign

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/media-features-president-and-vice-chancellor-speaking-on-gender-equality-campaign

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has spoken about Leicester’s involvement in the UN Women’s HeForShe solidarity movement in the media, explaining how it is fitting that the University of Leicester should be chosen among only 10 universities in the world that...

• Richard III discovery at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/richard-iii-discovery-at-the-royal-society-summer-exhibition

  The team behind the scientific detective story of the decade, the discovery of King Richard III, has been selected as one of 22 exhibitors at the Royal Society’s annual display of the most exciting cutting-edge science and technology in the UK.

• 17th Century Adventures in Travel Writing

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/01/07/17th-century-adventures-in-travel-writing/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on January 7, 2015 In 1627, at the age of only 21, Sir Thomas Herbert travelled to Persia and India as a low-ranking member of Charles I’s embassy to Shah Abbas I.

• New elite ranking of world universities places Leicester amongst top institutions

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-elite-ranking-of-world-universities-places-leicester-amongst-top-institutions

  A new ranking of the world’s top 300 elite universities has ranked the University of Leicester among the leading institutions in the world.