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• Free public event explores the 1911 ‘All India’ cricket tour of England

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/30-cricket-event

  A fascinating chapter in cricket history will be explored at a free public event on Tuesday 1 October when Dr Prashant Kidambi, Associate Professor of colonial urban history, discusses the first ever Indian tour of England in 1911.

• The sting of the bling

  https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/sustaining-world/sustainable-metal-extraction

  Experts Professor Gawen Jenkin and Dr Dan Smith explain the importance of pursuing sustainable methods of metal extraction in order to tackle climate change.

• Overseas Field Option

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy3418

  Module code: GY3418 At the heart of this module is a week-long field trip to Berlin. The focus of the module thinks about geopolitics at the urban scale and the ways in which Berlin (and Germany’s) geopolitical history continues to shape the geography of the city.

• Hilary Burgess

  https://le.ac.uk/inspirational-women/hilary-burgess

  Professor Hilary Burgess came to Leicester in 2010 from a position at the Open University, joining her husband Robert Burgess, who had been Vice-Chancellor since 1999.

• Overseas Field Option

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy3418

  Module code: GY3418 At the heart of this module is a week-long field trip to Berlin. The focus of the module thinks about geopolitics at the urban scale and the ways in which Berlin (and Germany’s) geopolitical history continues to shape the geography of the city.

• Overseas Field Option

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/gy3418

  Module code: GY3418 At the heart of this module is a week-long field trip to Berlin. The focus of the module thinks about geopolitics at the urban scale and the ways in which Berlin (and Germany’s) geopolitical history continues to shape the geography of the city.

• Prolific Shakespearean actor Michael Pennington to take part in Literary Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/prolific-shakespearean-actor-and-recent-king-lear-michael-pennington-to-take-part-in-literary-leicester

  Eminent stage actor, writer and director Michael Pennington will be delivering a talk and Q&A at our Literary Leicester festival on 16 November. Renowned for his performance as King Lear in New York 2014, Michael reprised the role for a major UK tour in 2016.

• Leicester welcomes over 1500 school students on campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/leicester-welcomes-over-1-500-school-students-on-campus

  Over 1,500 students arrived on campus to experience a taste of university life as part of the Schools’ Taster Conference which took place on Thursday 29 June.

• Treatment which could prevent wound scarring to be presented

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/june/treatment-which-could-prevent-wound-scarring-to-be-presented

  Research at our University has revealed a potential treatment to prevent wound scarring that will soon be entering clinical trials.

• Olive Banks (1923-2006)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/inspirational-women/olive-banks

  “Any attempt to raise feminist arguments was met with indifference if not outright hostility, and the paucity of women academics in general increased my feeling of isolation.