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Abolitionists: Antislavery Activism in Britain and America, 1787-1865
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs3810
Module code: HS3810 Between the American Revolution of the 1770s and 1780s and the American Civil War of the 1860s, the English-speaking world was agitated by a popular antislavery movement without precedent or parallel.
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Dorothy Francis
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/working-with-business/entrepreneurs-in-residence/dorothy-francis
Find out more about Dorothy Francis, Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Leicester School of Business.
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Jagdip Grewal
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/people/deans-advisory-board/jagdip-grewal
Jagdip Grewal is a business transformation leader, who has been designing and leading transformation and IT change in large complex organisations for 20+ years.
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Martin Phillips
https://le.ac.uk/people/martin-phillips
The academic profile of Professor Martin Phillips, Professor of Human Geography at University of Leicester
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George Harrison
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/george-harrison
We have learned, with sadness, of the passing of George Anthony Harrison, who lectured in history from the 1960s to the 1990s and remained a familiar figure on campus for many years afterwards. George passed away on 22 January 2025, aged 87.
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A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.
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Poll Books in Special Collections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.
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LeCTIS Seminar Series 2018-19
https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events/lectis-seminar-series-2018-19
See the programme for the LeCTIS Seminar Series for the 2018-19 academic year.
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Evelyn Waugh and His Circle: Reading and Editing the Complete Works
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/05/27/evelyn-waugh-and-his-circle-reading-and-editing-the-complete-works/
Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on May 27, 2014 As many of you might know already, in 2015 we are planning a glitzy international Evelyn Waugh conference here in Leicester. Richard III is SO 2013.
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Awful Things Began to Happen: Rapid Change of Ainu Homeland and Convict Labour as Seen by the Ainu,
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/01/27/awful-things-began-to-happen-rapid-change-of-ainu-homeland-and-convict-labour-as-seen-by-the-ainu-by-minako-sakata/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on January 27, 2015 The Kamikawa region is one of areas that today still has relatively a large population of the Ainu.