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• Conceptualising Islands in History: Considering Bermuda and Gibraltar’s Prison Hulks

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/03/08/conceptualising-islands-in-history-considering-bermuda-and-gibraltars-prison-hulks/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on March 8, 2016 By Anna McKay, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Student, National Maritime Museum & University of Leicester.

• Library and Learning Services: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 5

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/page/5/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Being Disturbingly Informative. By Shane McCorristine

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/10/31/disturbingly-informative/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on October 31, 2016   Last year I visited a fine old building nestled incongruously close to the skyscrapers and busy financial offices of Market Street in downtown Philadelphia.

• 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...

• 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.

• 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 .

• 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.

• Their Past Your Future 2

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/their-past-your-future-2

  TPYF2 aimed to encourage the sector to use their collections to increase young people’s knowledge and understanding of the impact of war.

• 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.

• Events

  https://le.ac.uk/translation-interpreting-studies/events

  We organise regular research seminars and conferences and host visiting speakers. Learn more about some of our recent events in the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies.