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• Research seminar: 'Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations'

  https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events/talking-transformations

  Find out about our research seminar: 'Talking Transformations: poetry, art, and translational migrations', with guest speaker Dr Manuela Perteghella.

• 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.

• 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.

• ‘History in the making’: Reflections on the reinterment of Richard III, ten years on

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/richard-iii-reinterment-anniversary

  Members of the University of Leicester’s Greyfriars team, who excavated and identified the remains of Richard III, recall their experiences of his reinterment on 26 March 2015

• New University film, 'Revisiting the Harms of Hate', available now

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/revisiting-harms-hate-film

  The sequel to a celebrated short film, produced by the University of Leicester, exploring the impact of hate crime is now available to watch.

• Events in Leicester this October 2017 for Black History Month

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/10/04/events-in-leicester-this-october-2017-for-black-history-month/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2017 Phoenix Square marks Black History Month with a series of films programmed by local arts organisation Serendipity, in partnership with the University of Leicester, a one-off...

• Oral history: Women’s Liberation Movement

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/oral-history-womens-liberation-movement/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Recordings of 14 interviews done to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020.

• History

  https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision/history

  Find your research degree supervisor in History at Leicester.

• Women’s history

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/womens-history/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 Europeana has themed galleries relating to women’s history month.

• Unveiling Women’s History at the University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/01/03/unveiling-womens-history-at-the-university-of-leicester/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on January 3, 2019   About the University of Leicester Established in 1921 as a memorial to those who served in the First World War,  Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland College  had humble origins.