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A first-hand account of the Great Fire of London
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/28/a-first-hand-account-of-the-great-fire-of-london/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 28, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by Nanteuil, for which Evelyn sat on 13 June 1650, while visiting Paris. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 2, p. 245.
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Broadening our international horizons
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/ult/2016/10/11/broadening-our-international-horizons/
Menu Close University Leadership Team Home Broadening our international horizons Broadening our international horizons Posted by on October 11, 2016 When I was 10 years old I bought myself a ‘Teach yourself Chinese’ book.
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Approaching Ancient Evidence (Greek)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ah1008
Module Code: AH1008 This module is the essential first step in your training as a Greek historian. Through a combination of lectures and small-group seminars, you will be taught the key skills for dealing with ancient evidence.
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Approaching Ancient Evidence (Greek)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ah1008
Module Code: AH1008 This module is the essential first step in your training as a Greek historian. Through a combination of lectures and small-group seminars, you will be taught the key skills for dealing with ancient evidence.
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Approaching Ancient Evidence (Greek)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ah1008
Module Code: AH1008 This module is the essential first step in your training as a Greek historian. Through a combination of lectures and small-group seminars, you will be taught the key skills for dealing with ancient evidence.
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Sami Zubaida
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2025/sami-zubaida
We have learned, with sadness, of the passing on 6 April 2025 of Sami Zubaida, an expert in Middle Eastern culture who taught Sociology at Leicester in the 1960s. Sami Zubaida was born into an Iraqi Jewish family in Baghdad in 1937.
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Leicester alumnus appointed High Sheriff of East Sussex
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/leicester-alumnus-appointed-high-sheriff-of-east-sussex
Michael Foster, who is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of East Sussex, was this year appointed the County’s High Sheriff.
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Centenary Square dedication
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/square-dedication
Centenary Square is public space for staff, students and visitors in the heart of our campus. It is a magnificent multi-use outdoor venue in the centre of the campus.
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MEPs in the 2014-19 European Parliament: The Rise of Euroscepticism?
https://le.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/previous-research-projects/the-rise-of-euroscepticism
The project examines the range of views represented in the European Parliament, changes in mainstream Members of the European Parliaments’ (MEPs) views over time, MEPs’ attitudes to democracy in the EU and the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
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Postgraduate researchers win prestigious policy internships
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/postgraduate-researchers-win-prestigious-policy-internships
Two Leicester postgraduate researchers have been selected for prestigious internships that will see them assist with briefings to Parliament on science policy issues.