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• 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...

• 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 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.

• 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

• 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).

• Genes for learning and memory are 650 million years old, study shows

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/big-bang

  A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other complex behaviours originated around 650 million years ago.

• Clearing trip to see the University of Leicester changed Tom’s direction of study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/clearing-tom

  When Tom Walters missed out on his first-choice university place, the next step should have seen him accept his reserve choice – until a visit to the University of Leicester during Clearing changed everything.

• New study to explore how personalised drug doses could improve quality of life for people with secondary breast cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/breast-cancer-drug-doses-leicester

  A new study by a Leicester researcher will explore how people with incurable secondary (or metastatic) breast cancer experience treatment side effects, and whether personalised drug doses could help improve their quality of life

• School of English Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/page/2/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Large-scale study suggests under 45s and women more likely to gain weight and jump a BMI category during COVID-19 lockdown

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/covid-bmi

  A large-scale study of almost a million UK adults led by Leicester researchers has revealed that under 45s and women were more likely to gain weight and jump a body mass index (BMI) category during COVID-19 lockdown.