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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.

  • The people in the film

    https://le.ac.uk/centenary/so-that-they-may-have-life/people

    The film shows Dr Astley Clarke and Lily McCurdy walking the same path a century apart. The film features students, alumni and staff playing the roles in the film.

  • Women and art in London

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/14/women-and-art-in-london/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 14, 2025 A project undertaken by Jeremy Smith and Charlotte Hopkins at The London Archives has revealed new information on women artists and publishers in practising in London during 1600s – 1800s.

  • Disability arts online

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/19/disability-arts-online/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 19, 2022 Disability arts online , led by disabled UK artists, includes advice and support for  disabled artists as well as listings, reviews, news relating to the arts and accessibility to...

  • 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.

  • Freedom to Marry, Oral History Collection

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/05/26/freedom-to-marry-oral-history-collection/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 26, 2017 Free access to this important collection from the University  of California Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s Oral History Center .

  • Attenborough Arts Centre launches exciting Spring programme

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/aac-spring

    In Gallery 2 from 7 February to 6 April, artist Sabrina Tirvengadum will exhibit a range of her work which delves into the complexities of her Mauritian family history, deeply influenced by the legacies of colonialism.

  • 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.

  • Irish Independence film collection

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/15/irish-independence-film-collection/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 15, 2018 Free access via the Irish Film Institute player to this great collection of British news reel films covering the period 1900-1930 with such key events as WW1, the Easter Rising, the...

  • 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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