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• Summertime, and the Gibbeting ain’t Easy… By Emma Battell Lowman

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/06/20/summertime-gibbet/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on June 20, 2016     Today is officially the first day of summer, and I welcome the season this year particularly grateful for something that this time last year hadn’t even crossed my mind.

• 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...

• Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/wordsworth-exhibition

  A multi-media exhibition led by a team of academics at the University of Leicester has launched at the Wordsworth Museum – one of the Lake District’s most popular tourist spots.

• 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.

• Alumni Association Committee

  https://le.ac.uk/alumni/get-involved/alumni-association

  The Standing Committee is a channel of communication between the University and the Alumni Association. Members of the Alumni Association take an active role in helping to arrange and host events.

• 2025

  https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series/archive/2025

  2025 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians The Purloined Heart: Intertextuality Between Dickens and Poe 19 February Speaker: Dr Katie Bell (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester) Online Victorian Statumania: Poets and Public Monuments 26...

• 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

• Mapping the future of University of Leicester’s iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/15-getty-foundation-grant

  Stirling and Gowan-designed building among ten new grants from Getty Foundation’s 2018 Keeping It Modern programme

• Oral history projects in Derbyshire

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/what-is-oral-history/directory-of-oral-history/east-midlands/derbyshire

  Browse projects and oral history materials from Derbyshire, including the £25,000 grant offered to children aged between 13 and 17 to discover more about the grounds of Chatsworth.

• Geology with Palaeontology BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/geology-with-palaeontology-bsc/2026

  Life. Evolution. Extinction. They might be huge concepts, but you can easily break them down through the lens of palaeontology. If you love fossils, and what they can tell us, this geology degree is for you.