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• Leicester historian takes Hairy Bikers through Yorkshires past pubs

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicester-historian-takes-hairy-bikers-through-yorkshire2019s-past-pubs

  A new BBC series following the popular Hairy Bikers on a tour of historic British pubs features a historian from our University in its opening episode, discussing the pubs of Yorkshire’s past.

• Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs2311

  Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...

• Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs2311

  Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...

• Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/hs2311

  Module code:HS2311 What do the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692 tell us about Puritan attitudes to young and old women? What impact did slavery have on the black family? When did the ‘American teenager’ first make his/her appearance? What does Teddy Roosevelt's image...

• University historian drives successful campaign for Leicestershire flag

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/july/leicestershire-flag

  Professor Shipley formed the idea of establishing a flag for Leicestershire in 2014, when he noticed that around half of England’s 39 historic counties had adopted flags in the previous decade or so, and that soon Leicestershire would be one of the few without one.

• Digitising the Coventry Archives oral history collection

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/coventry-archives/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 by Richard Wheelband, UOSH Midlands Digitisation Engineer   The Unlocking Our Digital Heritage (UOSH) Midlands Hub is based in Special Collections at the University of Leicester and is preserving ‘at...

• Historic England to view work on preserving iconic Engineering Building

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/historic-england-to-view-work-on-preserving-iconic-engineering-building

  Painstaking work to replace the iconic roof of our historic Engineering Building is to be examined by heritage experts this week.

• Learn about oral history and sound heritage at the University Library

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/learn-about-oral-history-and-sound-heritage-at-the-university-library

  Have you ever wanted to collect memories of your local community, or preserve sound recordings for future generations? You can learn how to at a public conference on Monday 9 July, hosted by the University Library.

• 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

• Historian reveals Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard III are cousins

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/historian-reveals-benedict-cumberbatch-and-richard-iii-are-cousins

  Leading historian and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Kevin Schürer, whose genealogy research helped to confirm the identity of King Richard III, has now discovered a link between Oscar-nominated actor Benedict Cumberbatch and the King.