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• The fight for minority rights in the United States to be explored at event

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/the-fight-for-minority-rights-forms-2018a-continuous-thread-of-american-history2019-1

  Issues of racism - from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s up until today - and how the ongoing fight for minority rights has formed a ‘continual and continuous thread of American history’ will be discussed at an upcoming ‘Remembering Rosa Parks’ event on...

• Discovery of Hadrosaur footprint over 30 years ago was first dinosaur fossil finding in Scotland

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/student-discovery-of-2018hadrosaur2019-footprint-over-30-years-ago-was-first-dinosaur-fossil-finding-in-scotland

  Recent discoveries in Patagonia and other parts of South America as part of a four-year study has revealed a ‘mass grave’ littered with charred bone fragments of the ‘duck-billed’ Hadrosaur which has helped describe how changing environmental conditions led to the extinction...

• Moonstruck Exhibition eclipses expectations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/moonstruck-exhibition-eclipses-expectations

  Record numbers of visitors attended Leicester Cathedral for a University-sponsored British Science Week Festival event in the city.

• Clare Anderson

  https://le.ac.uk/people/clare-anderson

  Information and contact details for Professor Clare Anderson FBA, Professor of History and Director, LIAS, at the University of Leicester.

• Leicester partners with Thailand with support of Thai Prime Minister, British Ambassador and Leicester City Football Club

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/leicester-partners-with-thai-prime-minister-british-ambassador-leicester-city-football-club

  The University of Leicester has marked its commitment to Thailand and Vietnam through a series of partnership agreements that will pave the way for Thai students to study in Leicester, open the door to research collaborations and promote bilateral knowledge exchange.

• Partners

  https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton/about/partners

  Find out more about the partners for the Joe Orton: 50 Years On project. Including: Curve theatre, Leicester; the National Justice Museum in Nottingham; and the Arts Council, England.

• Thinking sociologically about the history of convicts and penal colonies

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/02/25/thinking-sociologically-about-the-history-of-convicts-and-penal-colonies/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on February 25, 2016 In the early 1990s I had the privilege of studying with David Garland, then teaching and researching in Edinburgh University’s Law School.

• Teaching resources

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/outreach/for-teachers/teaching-resources

  Browse our collection of teaching resources, covering both archaeology and Classics, and including lesson plans, interactive resources and more.

• Everywhere and Nowhere: exploring histories of disability across the National Trust

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/everywhere-and-nowhere

  National Trust and University of Leicester launch new film to explore fascinating, previously untold stories of disability from the Trust’s sites and collections

• Roman Knossos

  https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/big-antiquity/roman-knossos

  The University of Leicester's Roman Knossos Archaeology project, an excavation and investigation of the Roman settlement at Knossos, Greece (Colonia Iulia Nobilis Cnossus).