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• Building healthier well-connected communities

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/building-healthier-communities

  Demonstrating the capacity for cultural organisations to contribute towards more equitable, fair and inclusive societies.

• Ancient History and Classical Archaeology MA, PGDip, PGCert, by distance learning

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/ancient-history-and-classical-archaeology-ma-dl/2026

  Combine the study of ancient history with archaeology to explore the societies of Greece and Rome, those that surrounded them, and their influence both on the past and the modern world

• Facilities for students

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/study/undergraduate/facilities

  The School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester occupies its own building at the heart of the University campus. We have a set of recently refurbished and very well-equipped laboratories for in-house scientific archaeology teaching and research.

• 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

• Zanzibar’s Prison Island: The Prison That Never Was, by Sarah Longair

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/10/23/zanzibars-prison-island-the-prison-that-never-was-by-sarah-longair/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014 My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the...

• Leicester Criminologist presents evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/leicester-criminologist-presents-evidence-to-the-all-party-parliamentary-group-on-british-muslims

  Neil Chakraborti, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Leicester Centre for Hate Studies, has been asked to provide expert evidence to an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims.

• About us

  https://le.ac.uk/global-cluster/about-us

  The University of Leicester has been researching imperial, colonial and global history for the past 50 years, covering multiple areas of the world.

• Leicester’s global and colonial history explored through a basketry collection

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/dryad-baskets

  An exhibition showcasing the basket collection of Leicester entrepreneur Harry Peach has gone on display at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery

• Leicester to showcase humanities research at 2021 Being Human festival

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/being-human

  University of Leicester experts from disciplines as diverse as English literature, archaeology and criminology – and a whole lot more – have joined the programme for the UK’s largest national festival of the humanities.

• Daring Deeds of Valour

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/onthisdayofwar/2016/02/09/daring-deeds-of-valour/

  Posted by Philip Shaw in On This Day of War on February 9, 2016 Daring Deeds of Valour By Dr Rachel Bates, University of Leicester The 29 January 2016 marks the 160 th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, a key legacy of the Crimean War (1854-56).