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• Exhibition showcases fascinating relationship between India and Britain between 17th and 20th centuries

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/exhibition-showcases-exhibition-showcases-2018fascinating-relationship2019-between-india-and-britain-between-17th-and-20th-centuries

  An exhibition running at our University traces the history of the British in India from the early 17th century to the turn of the 20th.

• University volunteers plant thousands of bulbs at Botanic Garden

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/botanic-garden-crocus-plant-nick-bailey

  Green fingered volunteers are helping to plant 80,000 crocus bulbs in Leicester’s Botanic Garden this week

• University recognised for innovative approach to preparing students for work

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/university-recognised-for-innovative-strategy-in-preparing-students-for-work

  Our Career Development Service has been recognised with the award for ‘Preparation For Work by Higher Education - Single Initiative’ by The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) for a 48 hour work-based challenge for students.

• Clearing 2022: Brilliant Bianca grasps second chance at university in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/clearing-bianca

  Marcin – now a Research Associate in Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy – moved to the UK in September 2019 to set up home for Bianca and Blanka, who arrived in time for mum to start her studies that year. “My two university experiences were so different.

• Oral history projects in Rutland

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/rutland

  Browse projects and oral history materials from Rutland, including the Heritage of Rutland Water, a project about England's largest man-made lake in its smallest county.

• Poll Books in Special Collections

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/04/22/poll-books-in-special-collections/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 22, 2015 With a General Election campaign in full swing, it seems like a good time for some blog posts about the sources we hold on the history of British parliamentary elections.

• Educational experiments arrive safely at International Space Station

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/educational-experiments-arrive-safely-in-space

  A kit of experiments to teach fundamental physics and chemistry to UK students has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) for British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake to run during his six month mission in space.

• A New History of Bronze: crafting, leadership and violence

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/a-new-history-of-bronze

  Research project page for A New History of Bronze: crafting, leadership and violence. Detailing the project hosts, methodology, the research team, and example publications.

• Leicester expands international offer for student placements

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/turing-scheme

  Leicester students will be offered even more global opportunities to enhance their studies in the next academic year, funded by a major UK Government project.

• 'The Isolated Baronet' Calke Abbey and RCMG address contemporary isolation and loneliness

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies/isolated-baronet

  Read more about ideas relating to contemporary isolation and loneliness - a research project led by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries.