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  • To celebrate Year of the Rooster University research explores intriguing tales of chickens

    To celebrate the Chinese Year of the Rooster, a research team involving our University has shed light on the fascinating role chickens have played in the development of our planet - by taking audiences on the Chicken Trail.

  • Recreation of Iron Age Glenfield cauldron nominated as Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year 

    The collaborative investigation and recreation of an Iron Age cauldron found in Glenfield has been shortlisted as Current Archaeology ‘Research Project of the Year’ 2026.

  • Big stars and a big moon to shine in Leicester

    Museum of the Moon K3aRRq95Axw 8400|For an out-of-this-world experience in Leicester – head over to the spectacular array of events being held as part of British Science Week in March.

  • Research seminars

    Browse our past research seminars in the Medieval Research Centre's events archive.

  • 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.

  • The ‘aura’ of the original?

    Chiara Marabelli, PhD Student has entered a piece entitled 'The 'aura' of the original?'.

  • 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...

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

    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...

  • Richard III landmarks ranked in Smithsonians 25 Great New Places to See list

    Richard III landmarks around Leicester, including Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, the King Richard III Visitor Centre and Leicester Cathedral, have been ranked twelfth place in the Smithsonian's 'The 21st Century Life List: 25 Great New Places to See'.

  • Permissible Beauty

    Permissible Beauty examines how beauty has been defined, hailed and perceived in the past and how this is reflected in – and shaped by – our nation’s heritage.

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