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  • George Harrison

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/george-harrison

    We have learned, with sadness, of the passing of George Anthony Harrison, who lectured in history from the 1960s to the 1990s and remained a familiar figure on campus for many years afterwards. George passed away on 22 January 2025, aged 87.

  • History of tobacco and our health

    https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/tobacco-history

    How did tobacco become one of the first truly global commodities, and arguably history’s most deadly habit?

  • Arthur Edward Davis (1882-1916)

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/11/02/arthur-edward-davis-1882-1916/

    Arthur Edward Davis was educated at Mill Hill School, London. He became a cricketer of distinction and played for Leicestershire. In the great War he joined as a Private the 11th Royal Fusiliers and served in France, where he was killed in 1916.

  • Putting satellite data in farmers’ hands to improve food security

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/farming-earth-observation

    PhD project at University of Leicester aims to get more farmers in Kenya and the UK using Earth Observation (E.O) data, allowing them to plan better for extreme weather, boosting climate resilience and food security

  • Professor Jack Spence

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/jack-spence

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  • Leicester announces international campus

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-announces-international-campus

    The University of Leicester’s foreign campus in China is set to open in September and will offer dual degrees for UK students spending one year in China as well as for Chinese students studying in Dalian.

  • Turned off at Execution Dock: Thames Scenery in the City of the Gallows. By Richard Ward

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/04/25/turned-off-at-execution-dock-thames-scenery-in-the-city-of-the-gallows-by-richard-ward/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on April 25, 2016   Eighteenth-century London has, with good reason, been called “the city of the gallows”.

  • Cancer expert receives £100,000 donation towards his vital work

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/mick-may-mesothelioma-fennell

    A cancer expert who prolonged the life of the inspirational author and charity founder, Mick May, has received a £100,000 donation to help continue his ground breaking work at the university of Leicester.

  • COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/covid19-ethnicity

    According to researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

  • Older dissertations

    https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/study/postgraduate/dissertations-and-theses/older-dissertations

    2010 BOWEN, J. A landscape of improvement: the impact of James Loch, chief agent to the Marquis of Stafford on the Lilleshall estate, Shropshire, 1720-1820. DAVIDSON, E. The evolution and secularisation of the funeral in Leicester and Leicestershire, 1830-2010.

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