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Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/lunatic-asylum
What we have known since the 1960s as the Fielding Johnson Building was originally the Leicestershire County Lunatic Asylum: the first public provision of care for pauper ‘lunatics’ (an all-encompassing term used at the time for many mentally and physically debilitating...
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Caroline Lucas and ‘The Rest is History’ Podcast headline 2025 Literary Leicester festival
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/february/literature-festival-caroline-lucas-rest-is-history
Literary Leicester is the University's free annual literature festival.
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Announcing the Carceral Archipelago Conference Call for Papers
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/06/03/announcing-the-carceral-archipelago-conference-call-for-papers/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on June 3, 2014 We are excited to open the Call For Papers (CFP) for the Carceral Archipelago’s upcoming international conference, The Carceral Archipelago: Transnational Circulations in Global Perspective,...
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Rosie Johnson
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/author/rej17/
Rosie is a research student working towards completion of her doctoral degree with the Radio and Space Plasma Physics research group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Vindolanda Week 1 – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2020/11/14/journey-to-the-edge-of-empire-notes-from-vindolanda-week-1/
The Arch-I-Scan Team resumes scanning activities and travels to the Roman fort and museum at Vindolanda.
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Global study reveals new hypertension and blood pressure genes
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/global-study-reveals-new-hypertension-and-blood-pressure-genes
Thirty-one new gene regions linked with blood pressure have been identified in one of the largest genetic studies of blood pressure to date, involving over 347,000 people, and jointly led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the University of Cambridge, with...
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About the project
https://le.ac.uk/grassroutes/about
Grassroutes supports the efforts of independent publishers and literature development agencies to inspire public engagement with the diverse writing cultures of multi-racial Britain.
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January 2026
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/almanac/january
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Unheard interview with Sir David Attenborough about life in Leicester part of new University exhibition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/attenborough
A never before heard interview with Sir David Attenborough is featured in a new exhibition that has opened to the public at the University of Leicester).
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Attenborough Arts Centre Presents: Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/august/exhibition
Attenborough Art Centre’s latest exhibition challenges expectations of landscape painting and invites visitors to ‘think outside the box’.