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  • University volunteers plant thousands of bulbs at Botanic Garden

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

  • Experts suggest Pokémon Go could ease Type 2 diabetes burden

    Hundreds of students and staff around the University and city have caught Poké-fever, joining millions of people worldwide in playing viral mobile app Pokémon Go - a virtual reality treasure hunt where players walk to places in the real world to...

  • Decolonising the Pitt Rivers Collection

    Séverine Toyon-Pope, MSc in Museum Studies While applying for my placement, there was little doubt what my first choice was.

  • Remembering Exile and Transportation: some thoughts from Cape Town

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 2, 2014   Before I began T he Carceral Archipelago project , my research was loosely centred on the history of Indian Ocean penal settlements and colonies, from the late nineteenth century to the Second World War.

  • Emotional new chancellor speaks about her appointment

    Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock has given us a glimpse into her thoughts at the beginning of her five-year tenure as Chancellor of the University of Leicester.

  • Terms and conditions of monthly membership

    Read the terms and conditions of monthly membership.

  • History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966

    Over the past two years there has been a general shift in models of incarceration in the former British colony of Guyana, from punishment (punitive measures) to correction and rehabilitation (via training and education).

  • Hidden histories revealed at Bradgate Park

    In just the first two weeks of a five-year archaeological project at Bradgate Park, a team of students and staff from the University have unearthed thousands of years of history.

  • New online app for reporting sexual violence in Brazil

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2013 Innovative use of new technology by UNICEF and UN-Habitat: a website which also works as a smartphone app that brings together information on support services for women and girls who are...

  • New pamphlets

    The Centre for New Writing regularly publishes new writing and has produced a number of poetry, fiction and non-fiction pamphlets, which are available at no cost.

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