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• Modern and Contemporary History BA

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/contemporary-history-ba/2026

  At Leicester you’ll explore modern and contemporary history, and learn about the political factors that shape historical events.

• Immersive exhibition ‘Jason and the Adventure of 254’ arriving in Leicester 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/jason-wellcome-exhibition-attenborough-arts

  Jason and the Adventure of 254 brings Jason Wilsher-Mills’ immersive, joyful and deeply personal exhibition on disability, memory and creativity to Leicester this summer.

• Space Park Leicester developing technology for ultra-clean mini-lab to potentially contain extra-terrestrial samples returned to Earth

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-technology-ultra-clean-mini-lab-extra-terrestrial-samples

  University of Leicester’s science and innovation park to lead on a European Space Agency project to build a Double-Walled Isolator (DWI) to support analysis of extra-terrestrial samples, to reduce the risk of cross contamination on Earth

• Student awards and prizes

  https://le.ac.uk/geology/study/student-awards

  The University of Leicester Geology students have been very successful in winning prizes and awards for their scientific work. Our students travel worldwide to conferences and field areas, and are in the vanguard of many research areas. Read here about some recent successes.

• People

  https://le.ac.uk/country-house-technology/people

  Professor Marilyn Palmer Marilyn Palmer read History at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and then worked in teacher training at Loughborough College of Education before joining the History Department of the University of Loughborough and becoming its Head in 1983.

• Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/dialect/leicestershire/melton-mowbray

  Listen to speakers from Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire from a range of backgrounds as part of the dialect project between researchers from Nottingham Trent University and the University of Leicester.

• Jean Humphreys (1924-2019)

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/jean-humphreys

  It is with great sadness we have learned of the death of a much-loved and dedicated friend of the University, Mrs Jean Humphreys.

• Martin Phillips

  https://le.ac.uk/people/martin-phillips

  The academic profile of Professor Martin Phillips, Professor of Human Geography at University of Leicester

• David Johnson

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/david-johnson

  We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr David Thomas Johnson, a former Dean of Arts and more recently Honorary Fellow in History. David passed away on 17 November 2023, aged 83.

• News archive 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/law/news/law-news/news-archive-2021

  Read news stories from Leicester Law School in 2021.