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  • Leicester scientist receives prestigious award for forest biomass research using space satellites

    Leicester scientist receives prestigious award for forest biomass research using space satellites Leicester scientist receives prestigious award for forest biomass research using space satellites|Dr Pedro Rodriguez-Veiga has received the Student Award (PhD) from the Council...

  • Past events

    Browse past events which have taken place in the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

  • Reflections from our project intern

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on May 19, 2014 By Jamie Harris, Carceral Archipelago undergraduate intern, 2013-14 I was an intern for the Carceral Archipelago project for 10 weeks. During this time I had two specific tasks to complete.

  • The Convict Hulks of Bermuda

    Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on June 26, 2014 I have long been interested in Bermuda. Like the island that I studied for my PhD thesis, Mauritius, it has no indigenous population.

  • 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...

  • Food Stories – the afterlife of a research project

    Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on November 24, 2017 It’s obviously been quite a while since this blog was updated, but that doesn’t mean we have forgotten about Consuming Authenticities! In fact, plenty of exciting developments have been quietly happening...

  • New artwork unveiled as part of University’s Centenary celebrations

    A pioneering new piece of public artwork by the Leicester-based artist Vishal Joshi has been unveiled today (Saturday) on the University of Leicester’s campus, as part of its Centenary celebrations.

  • People

    Name  Research Interests Dr Katy Bennett Multiculture, conviviality, community, belonging, ethnicity, gender Dr Margaret Byron  ...

  • Heidi Addison BA

    Learn more about our Senior Finds Supervisor of ULAS, Heidi Addison.

  • Thrown to the Lions? New evidence revealed for the use of lions during executions in Roman Britain

    Archaeologists in Leicester have discovered an elaborately-decorated Roman bronze key handle portraying the execution of captives in the arena by throwing them to lions. The handle portrays a ‘Barbarian’ grappling with a lion, together with four naked youths cowering in terror.

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