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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.

• Media History Digital Library has expanded

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/11/04/media-history-digital-library-has-expanded/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2022 This free online resource, led by Eric Hoyt and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research p rovides free access to thousands of pages of old magazines and journals covering...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Centre for Regional and Local History’s New Library Spaces

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/blog/new-library-spaces

  Back in 2021 the Centre for English Local History moved out of Marc Fitch House at 3-5 Salisbury Road, where it had resided since 1988, to a new space on the University’s main campus.

• 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.