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  • International day to mark the issues behind avoidable deaths

    The fourth instalment of an annual global day of awareness of the issues around avoidable deaths takes place this week.

  • The schoolboy sketches of John Leech

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...

  • Radiography lecturer awarded MBE for services to forensic investigation

    Radiography senior lecturer Dr Claire Robinson has been awarded an MBE for services to forensic investigation as part of the King’s Birthday Honours

  • ‘One of the most remarkable men in the entire history of archaeology’

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on August 1, 2017 Two hundred years ago, on 1 August 1817, the adventurer-Egyptologist Giovanni Belzoni, described by Howard Carter, with good reason, as ‘one of the most remarkable men in the entire history of...

  • University of Leicester announces partnership supported by Art Fund with leading UK museums, galleries and heritage organisations to advance trans inclusion.  

    The University of Leicester's Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) has established a partnership supported by Art Fund – the national charity for art – with leading UK museums, galleries and heritage organisations to support a bold and ambitious step change...

  • Japan's earliest 'couple' identified

    Fossils of male and female shells of tiny bivalved crustaceans 700|Scientists have discovered fossils of tiny male and female crustaceans over 400 million years old in Japan An international team of scientists has discovered what is believed to be Japan’s earliest...

  • Mr Emmanuel Katsogridakis

    MD, MSc, PhD, MRCS British Heart Foundation Academic Clinical Lecturer Email  ek311@le.ac.

  • University of Leicester space scientist appointed trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich

    Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics Emma Bunce has worked on multiple international space missions and has been appointed a trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich, including the ‘birthplace of modern astronomy’, the Royal Observatory Greenwich

  • Dryad Collection – basket weaving

    Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection , I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the cultivation of the types of natural...

  • I will always have a place in my heart for Leicester its academic influence and personal impact on how much I now believe in myself

    When it comes to making the most of your opportunities as a student, Eleanor Ferguson has done just that. This week, Eleanor will be graduating with a BA in History, but a degree isn’t the only thing that she will be taking away from her time at Leicester.

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