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• Social Justice Plaques: History, Heritage and Social Justice

  https://le.ac.uk/study/schools-and-colleges/pre-16/social-justice-plaques

  We are delighted to be running our Social Justice Plaques programme again this year, which allows Year 9 students to engage deeply in the study of History, Heritage and Commemoration, and in the idea of Social Justice.

• Events

  https://le.ac.uk/medieval/events

  The Leicester Medieval Research Centre is involved in organising many events like public lectures and seminar series. Take a look at the Centre's forthcoming events.

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s - 1948

  https://le.ac.uk/history/research/research-stories/jewish-dress-migration-and-belonging-1880s-1948

  History of Jewish Dress and migration from Central and Eastern Europe to Palestine/Israel

• About the East Midland Oral History Archive

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/about

  Learn more about the East Midlands Oral History Archive, including more about our partners, our team, our history and how to get in touch with us.

• Telling the story of Leicestershire’s first university

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/17-gordon-campbell-lecture

  Professor Gordon Campbell is delivering a lecture on the history of the University of Leicester.

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging

  External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.

• South Asian collections

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/south-asian

  Browse collections of oral histories that feature the memories of South Asians who have settled in Leicestershire. It includes East African Asians, particularly those who came from Uganda during the 1970s and onwards.

• Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/23-enderby-iron-age-bark-shield

  A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, the only one of its kind ever found in Europe.

• University contributes rare manuscript to major Sikh exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-contributes-rare-manuscript-to-major-sikh-exhibition

  Our University is contributing a rare Sikh manuscript to a major exhibition showcasing unseen relics and artefacts from the 19th Century Anglo Sikh Wars.

• Largest archaeological excavation in Leicester in over a decade open to public

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/largest-archaeological-excavation-in-leicester-in-over-a-decade-open-to-public

  Members of the public are invited to learn more about Leicester's Roman past as the city's largest excavation site in over 10 years is open to visitors on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May.