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  • Research, Space, and Distance

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on July 16, 2015   In June I attended a research seminar at which Professor Joanna Story, Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust funded project, The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence,...

  • Alice Munro, Canadian ‘Master’ of the Short Story

    Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature, 2013

  • Classics from my Childhood, a Literary Leicester Event

    Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on May 1, 2026 Guest post written by Alyssa Walker (BA Ancient History and History), as part of a student placement hosted by Archives & Special Collections for the 2nd year History module, ‘Working with History: The...

  • Archives and Special Collections Team Pick!

    Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on June 6, 2024 To mark International Archives Day, which falls on 9 th June, I asked my colleagues in Archives and Special Collections to choose one of their favourite collections from our holdings.

  • Leicester supports post-COVID regional recovery

    The University of Leicester is working with employers, partners and local leaders to help support post-COVID regional recovery in the East Midlands, by encouraging skills growth, create jobs and help retain expertise and knowledge within the area.

  • Environment scientists close in on ‘golden spike’ to define Anthropocene

    Leicester researchers searching for a ‘golden spike’ to formally define humanity’s current geological period – and acknowledge human impact on our planet – have announced a major step in their analysis at an international conference today (Wednesday).

  • Star Wars 50 Years: Pasts, Presents, and Futures

    Join the Star Wars 50 Years academic conference in Leicester (May 2027). Submit papers on film, fandom, media, and culture by 1 November 2026.

  • Forced Labour and Shifting Borders

    Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on January 10, 2016 Some may argue (for good reason) that the collapse of space and time is a commonplace condition of twenty-first century life.

  • The largest prison in the world

    Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on December 19, 2014 Several days ago, I broke from reading through the notes of nineteenth-century Russian penal inspectors to admire the 23rd edition of the International Prison News Digest , a publication of the Institute...

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    History at Leicester has an outstanding reputation for teaching and research across a wide geographical and chronological range.

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