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• Sabrina Tirvengadum explores their Mauritian heritage in new exhibition at Attenborough Arts Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/sabrina-tirvengadum

  Tirvengadum delves into her connection to the Marrier d’Unienville family, wealthy plantation owners in Mauritius.

• Bloomberg: US film revenues

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/08/14/bloomberg-us-film-revenues/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 14, 2013 Superhero blockbusters such as “Man of Steel” boosted movie sales in the second quarter after U.S. cinema takings declined during the past two years.

• School of History, Politics and International Relations

  https://le.ac.uk/hypir

  The School of History, Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester houses the subject areas of History, Politics and International Relations and American Studies and is also home to world-leading research clusters and centres.

• Black History Month

  https://le.ac.uk/black-history-month

  Celebrating Black History Month with events, stories, and art that honour Black heritage.

• Thinking sociologically about the history of convicts and penal colonies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/02/25/thinking-sociologically-about-the-history-of-convicts-and-penal-colonies/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on February 25, 2016 In the early 1990s I had the privilege of studying with David Garland, then teaching and researching in Edinburgh University’s Law School.

• The future of medical education built on a history of philanthropy

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/the-future-of-medical-education-built-on-a-history-of-philanthropy

  Fashion retailer and philanthropist George Davies found his name in lights as a new £42 million building was named in his honour and officially opened by Sir David Attenborough OM and Michael Attenborough CBE.

• Integrated Histories of the Andaman Islands

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/integrated-histories-of-the-andaman-islands

  ESRC Research Grant (£110,934) October 2009 - March 2013 Professor Clare Anderson This 3-year ESRC funded research project was a UK-India collaboration with the anthropologist Prof. Vishvajit Pandya and the historian of science, Dr Madhumita Mazumdar.

• What is history for?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/04/10/what-is-history-for-thinking-about-forced-migration-and-its-aftermath/

  University of Leicester staff blogs convicts penal colonies slavery migration

• Art and sociology help to reveal lives of British South Asian Women

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/art-and-sociology-help-to-reveal-lives-of-british-south-asian-women

  Leicester sociologists will collaborate with a local artist to bring new insights to their research into the experiences of migrant communities in the UK.

• Chicago History Museum online collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/chicago-history-museum-online-collection/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.