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• Warfare, Conflict and Violence in the Human Past

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar3054

  Module code: AR3054 Warfare and other forms of conflict and violence are typical, if not universal, features of human societies.

• The University as a military hospital during the Great War

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/military-hospital

  The University’s building now known as the Fielding Johnson Building was used as a military hospital during the First World War. Find out more about its wartime history.

• National Civil War Centre

  https://le.ac.uk/history/outreach/national-civil-war-centre

  The Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester and the National Civil War Centre (NCWC) have been working together to transform the public history of the British and Irish Civil Wars since 2012, when Newark Museum began its transformation, with the help...

• Scientists deliver world-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/svom-satellite-lobster-mirror

  Space scientists at the University of Leicester have delivered a completely new type of super-lightweight X-ray telescope mirror to study the greatest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang.

• National Space Centre celebrates 20 years in Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/june/space-centre-20

  The concept of the National Space Centre was first drawn up in 1994, and soon grew into a joint bid by the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council to the Millennium Commission as a Landmark Millennium Project for the East Midlands.

• Identifying clues to the position and orientation of the buildings

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/position-of-buildings

  The team found important clues to which part of the friary had been found because the benches they found would be the chapter house, which normally projected from the eastern side of a cloister, making the corridor or building joining it in Trench 2 part of the eastern...

• The postcard: wish you were here?

  https://le.ac.uk/social-worlds/all-articles/postcard

  Read the article "The postcard: wish you were here?" This is part of the Social Worlds project at the University of Leicester.

• The University's origins in the Great War

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/great-war

  Read about the origins of the University within the context of the First World War, and how the University College came to be founded in 1921.

• Dr George Pohl

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/george-pohl

  We have learned, with regret, of the passing of Dr Jurgen (George) Pohl MBChB, MRCP, who helped to establish the Leicester Medical School in the 1970s, serving as Senior Lecturer in Medicine until his retirement in 2001.

• University holds series of public events to mark Leicester’s migration history

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/leicester-migration-events

  The University of Leicester is working in conjunction with partners to hold five public events on the recent history of migration to the city.