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After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs3771
Module code: HS3771 In the years after 1945, Germans faced the task of rebuilding their society, and crafting a political model repudiating the recent Nazi dictatorship, in a context of defeat, disgrace and hardship.
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Leicester scientist lends expertise to new Jack the Ripper book
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/february/leicester-scientist-lends-expertise-to-new-jack-the-ripper-book
Bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell is due to release Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert on 28 February, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder—and the police force that failed to solve it.
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Identity Troubles: Nationalism, Jihadism and the Far Right
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sy3099
Module code: SY3099 In this module, we explore theses ‘troubling’ identities – historical (ultra)nationalism, the contemporary extreme right and jihadism – and investigate how they have been theorised and understood as part of long-term social processes.
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American Interventionism after the Cold War
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl7500
Module code: PL7500 This module will consider the utility of intervention - military and non-military - for the United States in the modern, post-Cold War era. Is U.S. interventionism reactive or the product of a coordinated world view? Is the U.S.
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Renaissance Drama
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en1050
Module code: EN1050 (double module) This module will enable you to build on existing knowledge and skills to develop a more independent and broad approach to the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within their theatrical and cultural context.
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Renaissance Drama
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/en1050
Module code: EN1050 (double module) This module will enable you to build on existing knowledge and skills to develop a more independent and broad approach to the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within their theatrical and cultural context.
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American Freedoms
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/hs7304
Module code: HS7304 "O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" The final line of their national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", shows the importance of freedom to American nationhood and...
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Renaissance Drama
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en1050
Module code: EN1050 (double module) This module will enable you to build on existing knowledge and skills to develop a more independent and broad approach to the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within their theatrical and cultural context.
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Identity Troubles: Nationalism, Jihadism and the Far Right
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/sy3099
Module code: SY3099 In this module, we explore theses ‘troubling’ identities – historical (ultra)nationalism, the contemporary extreme right and jihadism – and investigate how they have been theorised and understood as part of long-term social processes.
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American Freedoms
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/hs7304
Module code: HS7304 "O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" The final line of their national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner", shows the importance of freedom to American nationhood and...