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• Award-winning Irchester Field School brings Roman history to life for local community 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/heritage-hub-irchester-field-school-mj-award

  A University of Leicester partnership with North Northamptonshire Council has won an MJ Award.

• New project explores art and DNA at Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/new-project-explores-art-and-dna-at-leicester

  Leicester-based artists Ruth Singer and Gillian McFarland have begun working with Dr Turi King, Reader in Genetics and Archaeology, on a project which explores creative and visual responses to DNA research.

• LGBT+ History month

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/01/31/lgbt-history-month/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 31, 2019 February is LGBT+ History month.  Here is a list of some of the many LGBT-related resources in the library  https://rl.talis.

• LGBT+ history exhibitons, plus playlist

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/02/23/lgbt-history-exhibitons-plus-playlist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 23, 2022 Online exhibition from the Bishopsgate Institute to commemorate LGBT+ history month and a physical exhibition they are holding at the Barbican centre.

• Historian features in new BBC film

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/historian-features-in-new-bbc-film

  A historian funded by the Wellcome Trust from our University has been involved with a new film to be shown on the BBC on Friday 23 June.

• Caroline Lucas and ‘The Rest is History’ Podcast headline 2025 Literary Leicester festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/literature-festival-caroline-lucas-rest-is-history

  Literary Leicester is the University's free annual literature festival.

• How many women work in UK film production?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/12/how-many-women-work-in-uk-film-production/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2017 In 2015 25% of the 203 British films in production had no women in any of the six key production roles (director, writer, producer, exec-producer, cinematographer, and editor).

• 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.

• National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection of Charleston Slave Badges

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/national-museum-of-african-american-history-and-culture-collection-of-charleston-slave-badges/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 T he collection includes 146 rare badges dating as far back as 1804.

• 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.