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  • Convicts and the Sea

    Blog about the influence of naval practice on the punishment of convicts on the royal dockyard in Gibraltar in the nineteenth century.

  • The Platform recordings – trains, planes, automobiles and volunteers.

    Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on January 28, 2020   In 1974 John Kirby and Geoff Smith started ‘Platform’, a BBC Radio Leicester series about transport.

  • Spanish Pacific – the exhibition and the catalogue

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on June 18, 2014 During my research trip to Seville in January 2014, and then again in March, I had the opportunity to visit the exhibition Pacífico: España y la aventura de la Mar del Sur ( Pacific : Spain...

  • Carceral Archipelago: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • The closed prison and the memory of anywhere-but-here

    Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 21, 2016 The prison of the wolvenplein (Wolves Square), located in the city centre of Utrecht (The Netherlands), closed down in June 2014 as part of the budget cuts that have also affected the prison administration.

  • Attitudes to Convict Ancestry: Documentary Review

    Posted by Katy Roscoe in Carceral Archipelago on December 2, 2016 In this blog post I review the documentary ‘A Secret History of my Family: Gadbury Sisters’ , which aired in 2016, and discuss how it reflects changing attitudes to convict ancestry amongst British and...

  • Documentary highlights how humans created an artificial planet Earth

    The impact humans have had on planet Earth and how we have created an ‘artificial' planet will be explored in a new documentary by an award-winning journalist featuring Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (pictured) from the Department of Geology.

  • 2015 was best ever year for tourism in Leicestershire

    Leicester City's Premier League success and the ongoing 'Richard III effect' made 2015 the best year ever for tourism in Leicestershire. According to figures from Leicester Shire Promotions, visitors to the county injected nearly £1.

  • Research clusters

    Find out more about our research clusters in the School of Arts, Media, and Communication, covering Contemporary Literature, Writing, and Culture; Health, Environment, Science, and Technology in the Arts and media; Literary and Cultural Histories; Media Practice; Public...

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