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• 17th Century Adventures in Travel Writing

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/01/07/17th-century-adventures-in-travel-writing/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on January 7, 2015 In 1627, at the age of only 21, Sir Thomas Herbert travelled to Persia and India as a low-ranking member of Charles I’s embassy to Shah Abbas I.

• Fight against tuberculosis

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/fight-tuberculosis

  We are researching ways to tackle TB, the world’s most deadly infection.

• Talk by Riders Chairman offers insights into running a top-flight basketball team

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/20-riders-talk

  A public lecture at the University of Leicester on 27 November offers a unique insight into the management of Leicester’s legendary basketball club, the Leicester Riders.

• University project provides boost for womens empowerment

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/university-project-provides-boost-for-womens-empowerment

  A major international project investigating women academics’ careers in public universities in Pakistan has shattered preconceptions about women-only universities and identified them as progressive spaces that play a major role in developing women personally and...

• Beta-blockers could reduce death among those with diabetes and hypoglycaemia

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/22-beta-blockers-reduce-death-diabetes-hypoglycaemia

  Beta blockers|A type of drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure could reduce the risk of death among those with type 2 diabetes and a related complication.

• University celebrates LGBT History Month

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/university-celebrates-lgbt-history-month

  LGBT+ History Month is being marked at our University with a myriad of events from 12 to 28 February. The University has been rated as one of the top 100 employers in Stonewall’s Workplace index.

• Why do we still love James Bond

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/why-do-we-still-love-james-bond

  On Monday 26 October, another new James Bond movie will hit our cinema screens and the publicity machinery seems to be in overdrive. Spectre is the twenty-fourth in the continuous film series based on Ian Fleming’s British superspy and is produced by Eon Productions for MGM/Sony.

• New scientific technique helps catch wildlife criminals

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/peregrine-falcon

  DNA tests co-developed by scientists from the University of Leicester and Scotland’s wildlife forensic lab are helping to catch criminals involved in the illegal sale of protected bird species.

• Arch Street Prison: A Prison without Convicts

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/09/10/arch-street-prison-a-prison-without-convicts/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on September 10, 2015 By Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan.

• Nuclear Graphite

  https://le.ac.uk/cse/research/facilities/hercules/case-studies/nuclear-graphite

  Preparation of free-standing pillar  Nuclear Graphite Graphite is hugely important for the construction of both historical and modern nuclear reactors [1], acting as a neutron moderator.