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  • Leicester expert’s tale of ancient library makes The Telegraph’s greatest books of 2025 list

    A University of Leicester expert’s book explaining how ancient Mesopotamian knowledge shaped the roots of modern civilisation has been named as one of the Telegraph’s greatest books of 2025.

  • Research to investigate round mounds of the Isle of Man

    Dr Rachel Crellin (pictured) from the School of Archaeology and Ancient History and Dr Chris Fowler (Newcastle University) aim to investigate what the round mounds of the Isle of Man, and associated burials, people and artefacts, can tell us about life on the island...

  • Leicesters everevolving literary festival receives important Arts Council grant

    Literary Leicester, a leading festival of the written and spoken word organised by our University, opens in Leicester next month (November), with a glittering line-up of events that are free and open to the public.

  • Shedding new light on drinking and eating habits in the Roman world

    The landmark 50th issue of the journal Internet Archaeology highlights the pioneering research conducted by a network of academics, professional archaeologists and museum curators, led by the Universities of Leicester and Exeter, who are investigating new ways of analysing...

  • Richard Packer

  • School of Business Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 12

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Annual lecture archive

    Browse the archive of past annual lectures hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies

  • The Bloody Business of the Bloody Code: Dissecting the Criminal Corpse. By Elizabeth Hurren

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 3, 2016   Imagine hearing local gossip that a notorious murderer was about to be executed, and that everyone in the vicinity of a homicide was planning to turn out to see the violent culprit...

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  • Leicester Abbey and the missing remains of Cardinal Wolsey righthand man to Henry VIII

    The discovery of Richard III and the subsequent research into his remains has helped to acquaint members of the public with the nation’s history – and now some have set their sights on the search for another lost historical figure in Leicester.

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