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  • Digging for Britain: Leicestershire & Rutland archaeology projects to feature on BBC 

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/digging-for-britain

    Projects led by Leicester archaeologists have been showcased on the new series of BBC Two’s primetime TV series Digging for Britain.

  • Journeys festival makes a stop off at Attenborough Arts Centre

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/journeys-festival-makes-a-stop-at-attenborough-arts-centre

    The Attenborough Arts Centre is hosting an event as part of the ArtReach's 'Journeys' festival, which celebrates the artistic talents of refugee and asylum seeker artists, sharing refugee stories through great art and culture.

  • Leicester academic co-authors new book on young people and the anti-apartheid protest

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/leicester-academic-co-authors-new-book-on-young-people-and-the-anti-apartheid-protest

    Dr Gavin Brown, Associate Professor in Human Geography, has co-written a book about young people's involvement with the anti-apartheid movement.

  • New community counting materials for children launched

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/july/new-community-counting-materials-for-children-launched

    Maths materials featuring local schoolchildren, adults and celebrities will be launched at an event at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 4 July.

  • New heart attack genes discovered

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/new-heart-attack-genes-discovered

    Scientists have discovered two new genes which are associated with a person’s risk of coronary heart disease in an international collaboration involving BHF and NIHR-funded researchers. The findings could lead to new statin-like treatments to prevent heart attacks.

  • University of Leicester staff blog School of English BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Joe Or

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/26/bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive/

    Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on June 26, 2014 The BBC’s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

  • Motor Cities

    https://le.ac.uk/history/research/current-research-grants/previous-research-grants-and-projects/motor-cities

    Leverhulme Research Project Grant (£154,757) October 2011-September 2014 Professor Simon Gunn and Dr Susan Townsend (University of Nottingham) In the last half century the automobile has transformed life in cities across much of the globe, offering unprecedented freedom...

  • Professor JHWG Liebeschuetz

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2022/wolf-liebeschuetz

    It is with great sadness that the family of Professor John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz announces his passing, after a brief illness, on 12 July 2022 at the age of 95. We have lost a much-loved family member, friend to many, and a highly respected scholar of history.

  • Hayabusa 2: Asteroid Samples Return this Weekend

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/12/04/hayabusa-2-asteroid-samples-return-this-weekend/

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 4 December 2020 Professor John Bridges discusses the importance of the Hayabusa 2 mission, returning samples of asteroid Ryugu to Earth this weekend, in a blog for theConversation .

  • Chinese Prisoners on Cockatoo Island, Sydney

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/06/21/chinese-prisoners-cockatoo-island/

    Chinese prisoners and former gold-diggers who were imprisoned on Cockatoo Island in Sydney (New South Wales). Explores how they were disadvantaged within the colonial justice system and how they resisted imprisonment.

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