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AboutUs
https://le.ac.uk/top-links-about-us
Leicester probably started as a Celtic settlement. It was the capital of the local Celtic tribe, the Coriletavi. The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and they captured Leicestershire by 47 AD. The Romans built a fort at Leicester in 48 AD.
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General Engineering BEng
https://le.ac.uk/courses/general-engineering-beng/2026
From prosthetic limbs to exploratory spacecraft, engineers design and build extraordinary machines, products and systems. But doing so often takes more than specialist expertise.
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What can schools REALLY do about Andrew Tate?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2023/06/05/what-can-schools-really-do-about-andrew-tate/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on June 5, 2023 By Di Levine Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Criminology and Visiting Research Associate (Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg) And Matteo...
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Undergraduate courses
https://le.ac.uk/law/study/undergraduate
As an undergraduate LLB student at Leicester Law School, you will study the foundations of legal knowledge needed for becoming a lawyer, as well as develop a range of valuable skills that will prepare you for life beyond university.
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‘History in the making’: Reflections on the reinterment of Richard III, ten years on
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/richard-iii-reinterment-anniversary
Members of the University of Leicester’s Greyfriars team, who excavated and identified the remains of Richard III, recall their experiences of his reinterment on 26 March 2015
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PGCE Secondary (Lead Partners)
https://le.ac.uk/courses/school-direct-secondary-education-pgce/2026
This is for you if... you have a degree and would like to train to teach 11-18 year-olds as part of the Lead Partners scheme.
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Journalism and Media BA
https://le.ac.uk/courses/journalism-and-media-ba/2026
Study a joint degree in journalism and media in the School of Media, Communication and Sociology
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‘You want Pay-Rise with that?’ Strike Action, Fast-Food Style
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/19/you-want-pay-rise-with-that-strike-action-fast-food-style/
Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014 In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook , Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not...
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Summertime, and the Gibbeting ain’t Easy… By Emma Battell Lowman
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/06/20/summertime-gibbet/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on June 20, 2016 Today is officially the first day of summer, and I welcome the season this year particularly grateful for something that this time last year hadn’t even crossed my mind.
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Writer as Intellectual and Physical Drifter: Dr Rob M Francis reflects on his role as David Bradshaw
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2019/07/03/writer-as-intellectual-and-physical-drifter-dr-rob-m-francis-reflects-on-his-role-as-david-bradshaw-creative-writer-in-residence-and-two-of-his-favourite-oxford-sites/
Posted by gboland in Waugh and Words on July 3, 2019 It’s been an absolute pleasure to be the inaugural full time David Bradshaw Writer in Residence. I’ve been thrilled in so many ways and by so many aspects of this amazing project.