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Stormtroops, Iron Guard and Arrow Cross: Fascism and Genocide in Eastern Europe, 1938-1945
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/hs2349
Module code: HS2349 The formation of the Fascist movement by Mussolini, and its takeover of the Italian state in 1922, inspired right wing groups all around Europe to call themselves fascists. Many countries adjusted to the Italian methods, including the German Nazis.
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C++ Programming
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/co3105
Module code: CO3105 First introduced in the early 1980s, C++ has become one of the world's most popular programming languages, due to its potential for producing efficient and compact code.
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Interpreting Key Texts
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/sy1008
Module code: SY1008 The aim of the module is to provide an overview of the key sociological knowledge that has shaped the research of sociologists at the University of Leicester. We will focus on around 18 key texts chosen by academic staff and researchers.
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Bake Off and Gardeners’ World stars top the bill at Leicester festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/bake-off-gardeners-world-stars-leicester-festival
Stars from Gardeners’ World and The Great British Bake Off top the bill of a family friendly festival taking place in Leicester.
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Community History collection
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/british-empire-commonwealth/community-history-collection
Find entries in our catalogue from the Community History collection, which relate to the British Empire and Commonwealth theme.
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Leicester cited among global elite
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/leicester-cited-among-global-elite
The University of Leicester has been cited among the top global universities in the UK. U.S. News has released the third edition of its annual Best Global Universities rankings today to allow comparisons of universities around the world.
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Research finds Earths technosphere now weighs 30 trillion tons
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/research-finds-earths-2018technosphere2019-now-weighs-30-trillion-tons
An international team led by our geologists has made the first estimate of the sheer size of the physical structure of the planet’s technosphere – suggesting that its mass approximates to an enormous 30 trillion tons.
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2million grant gives Leicester research team a helping hand
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/ps2million-grant-gives-leicester-research-team-a-helping-hand
Joe Dias (pictured), Professor of Hand and Orthopaedic Surgery in our Department of Health Sciences, and his colleagues at Leicester’s Hospitals have been awarded a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) grant of just under...
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Another award for Centre for Medicines sustainability credentials
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/another-award-for-centre-for-medicine2019s-sustainability-credentials
Our landmark Centre for Medicine building has won the ProCon Leicestershire Awards Sustainable Development of the Year Award 2016.
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First photo from Junos Jupiter orbit released
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/first-photo-from-junos-jupiter-orbit-released
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has sent its first in-orbit view. Juno’s visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit around the largest planetary inhabitant of our solar system. The new view was obtained on 10 July at 6.