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The Archaeology of Colonialism in the Americas
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar3085
Module code: AR3085 Colonialism and its legacies structure the modern world today, both at home and further afield, responsible for inequalities in wealth and opportunity, attitudes to race and gender, configurations of power and knowledge.
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Star Wars: A Cultural History
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ha3488
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What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs3620
Module code: HS3620 The Great War, later known as the First World War, is frequently seen as the first of a particular and new kind of conflict. The first industrialised ‘total’ war whose impact was felt on an unprecedented scale - and was global in scope.
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Nick Everett
https://le.ac.uk/people/nick-everett
The academic profile of Mr Nick Everett, Associate Professor in American Literature & Creative Writing at University of Leicester
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Isobel Whitelegg
https://le.ac.uk/people/isobel-whitelegg
The academic profile of Dr Isobel Whitelegg, Associate Professor ( Art History; Museum Studies) University of Leicester
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Plant Sale and Family Day at Botanic Garden
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/june/plant-sale-family-day-at-botanic-garden
The Botanic Garden Plant Sale & Family Day is taking place on Sunday 28 June between 11:00am - 5:00pm on Glebe Road, Oadby, LE2 2LD. It is the University’s biggest annual public open day, and an important fixture in the community's calendar.
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A change in Leicesters DNA Research Professional features new research institutes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/a-change-in-leicester2019s-dna-research-professional-features-new-research-institutes
President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise Professor Iain Gillespie (pictured) have spoken to Research Professional about the University’s pioneering new research institutes.
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As China opens the worlds longest glassbottomed bridge researcher highlights how glass was a symbol of power to ancient cultures
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/as-china-opens-the-worlds-longest-glass-bottomed-bridge-researcher-highlights-how-glass-was-a-2018symbol-of-power2019-to-ancient-cultures
Last weekend, the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge opened to visitors in central China, connecting two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province.
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Leicester academic heads judging panel to land robot on the moon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/leicester-academic-heads-judging-panel-to-land-robot-on-the-moon
An academic from our University has been elected to Chair a judging panel in a global $30 million prize competition to land a robot on the moon.
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Colombias worldleading approach to higher education and research affords opportunities for UK academics
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/colombias-world-leading-approach-to-higher-education-and-research-affords-opportunities-for-uk-academics
Professor Paul van Gardingen (pictured), Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International and Development Research at our University, was part of a delegation of academics working at institutions across the UK recently sent to Colombia to build research links in the Latin...