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• New species revealed after 25 years of study on ‘inside out’ fossil – and named after discoverer’s mum

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/new-species-inside-out-fossil-named-after-mum

  Study from University of Leicester describes a new species of fossil that is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved and saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years

• Three-eyed distant relative of insects and crustaceans reveals amazing detail of early animal evolution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/kylinxia-fossil-scanning

  Scientists from the University of Leicester and Yunnan Key Laboratory for Palaeobiology use cutting edge scanning technology to reconstruct ‘fossil monster’ that lived half a billion years ago, filling a gap in our understanding of the evolution of arthropods such as insects...

• University’s heritage and archaeological teams to appear at Leicester’s Roman festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/april/leicester-old-town-festival-roman

  Students and staff from the University of Leicester will be behind a range of activities planned for Leicester’s Old Town Festival: Roman Edition.

• On the staff: the rocking chair years University of Leicester staff blogs

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2013/09/17/on-the-staff-the-rocking-chair-years/

  Posted by Gordon Campbell in School of English Blog on September 17, 2013 In most professions, retirement means stopping work, taking a long holiday, and turning to charitable and leisure pursuits, or possibly to drink.

• Student placement in Special Collections, Week 1-2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/07/31/student-placement-in-special-collections-week-1-2/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on July 31, 2025 Guest post written by Yi-Chen Su and Yongqin Huang, who are completing an eight week placement in Archives & Special Collections as part of their MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies .

• Literary experts and historians from around the world gather in Leicester to celebrate George Eliot’s bicentenary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-george-eliot

  George Eliot George Eliot illustration|The University of Leicester will this week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 July) play host to an international conference marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist George Eliot.

• Objects and Collections: Care, Management and Curation

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mu7016

  Module code: MU7016 This module looks inside the museum (and related institutions) to consider objects and collections, and how they are made, cared for and re-made within professional practice.

• Objects and Collections: Care, Management and Curation

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mu7016

  Module code: MU7016 This module looks inside the museum (and related institutions) to consider objects and collections, and how they are made, cared for and re-made within professional practice.

• Objects and Collections: Care, Management and Curation

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mu7016

  Module code: MU7016 This module looks inside the museum (and related institutions) to consider objects and collections, and how they are made, cared for and re-made within professional practice.

• Lifelong Learning

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mu7554

  Module code: MU7554 This module considers how the museum can offer opportunities for learning across the lifecourse.