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Archive of past events and conferences
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/news/past-events
Browse our archive of past events and conferences in the Centre for English Local History at Leicester, with records spanning back to 2008.
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Services for business
https://le.ac.uk/politics/services-for-business
See details of our range of consultancy and threat/risk advisory services. Consultancy services Details of our range of educational, training, and CPD courses.
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Monster planet discovery offers new insights into planet formation
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/2018monster2019-planet-discovery-offers-new-insights-into-planet-formation
A giant planet – the existence of which was previously thought extremely unlikely – has been discovered by an international collaboration of astronomers, including researchers from our Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Leicester celebrates century of surrealism this October
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/surrealism
University of Leicester's Dr Madeleine Chalmers will host a Surrealist Soiree at Phoenix Cinema later this month
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University of Leicester economics student makes history with rowing Gold
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/july/lauren-henry-gold
Economics student Lauren Henry wins Gold at the Games in Paris
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Epilepsy can lead to earlier deaths in people with intellectual disabilities
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/epilepsy-earlier-deaths-intellectual-disabilities
|A combination of missed prevention opportunities and health inequalities can result in the early deaths of people living with epilepsy and intellectual disabilities, a study has shown. Around 1.
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MA dissertations 1956-2020
https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/study/postgraduate/dissertations-and-theses/ma-dissertations-1956-2020
MA dissertations undertaken by our alumni between 1965 and 2020 2020 Brookes, J. Shaping Worfield: lordly avarice, neighbourhood watch or wider forces: social change in rural Shropshire, 1440-1660. Coyne, A.
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Obituary: Vikki Orvice
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/07-vikki-orvice-obituary
Vikki Orvice| The University is saddened to hear that alumna Vikki Orvice has passed away at the age of 56. Vikki studied a BA English and graduated in 1984.
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Leicester’s Jupiter research cited on new Royal Mail set
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/february/05-jupiter-stamp
The latest commemorative stamps from Royal Mail celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Royal Astronomical Society. And the work of space scientists in our School of Physics and Astronomy gets a mention. Jupiter’s auroras feature on one of the £1.55 stamps.
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New hope for COPD sufferers thanks to Leicester patients
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/copd
An incredible 238 patients have now taken part in a clinical trial at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), offering hope for new treatments for people suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).