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Town Commemorates Convicts, by Minako Sakata
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/09/29/town-commemorate-convicts-by-minako-sakata/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on September 29, 2014 At the end of August, I visited Tsukigata, a small town in Hokkaido where the Kabato Central Prison was located from 1881 to 1919.
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Joe Orton: 50 Years On
https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton
The Joe Orton: 50 Years On project sought to commemorate three of Joe Orton's plays (Loot, Entertaining Mr Sloane and What the Butler Saw) on the 50th anniversary of their premieres. Find out more about the project.
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MA Museum Studies Placement in Special Collections, Weeks 1-2
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/07/23/ma-museum-studies-placement-in-special-collections-weeks-1-2/
Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on July 23, 2018 Guest post from Yineng Zhu, Andrew Permain and Joe Searle, MA Museum Studies students working with the Archives & Special Collections team.
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News archive 2020
https://le.ac.uk/law/news/law-news/news-archive-2020
Read news stories from Leicester Law School in 2020.
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A Historical Long View of Posthumous Harm: Comparing organ snatching to body-snatching. By Floris To
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/05/16/organ-and-body-snatching/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on May 16, 2016 Improper Procurement and Retention Taking organs of dead children without parental permission at Alder Hey is a practice The Economist (2001) dubbed the ‘return of the body-snatchers’.
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The Story of Pulque Part 2: A Tangle of Origins – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/18/the-story-of-pulque-part-2-a-tangle-of-origins/
Overview of different pre-Columbian narratives about the origins or discovery of pulque, and the various political, historical, and cultural roles these narratives served particularly for the Mexica (Aztecs)
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Interview with Sharon Wang
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/05/31/introducing-dr-sharon-wang-postdoctoral-research-associate-maths-for-arch-i-scan/
Interview with Dr. Sharon (Shuihua) Wang, the new Mathematics Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Arch-I-Scan project.
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Archaeologists discover evidence of Roman and medieval Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/archaeologists-discover-evidence-roman-and-medieval-leicester
Archaeologists from University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have unearthed new evidence of Roman and medieval Leicester after recently completing the excavation of two areas at the former Southgates Bus Depot, on the corner of Southgates and Peacock Lane in the...
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Download our apps
https://le.ac.uk/study/welcome/first-weeks/download-our-apps
Information about the Citizen mobile app, MyWellbeing and SafeZone apps for you to download as a University of Leicester student.
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Room types
https://le.ac.uk/study/postgraduates/accommodation/room-types
From single bedrooms to one-bedroom flats, there are lots of different room types in our halls. Find out more, including information on adapted rooms for disabled students.