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• Historical directories

  https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/historical-directories

  a digital collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century trade and local directories for family, local and urban historians

• Accessibility statement

  https://le.ac.uk/policies/accessibility

  Read the University of Leicester's statement relating to accessibility.

• Leicester criminologists working with Government to explore motivations behind acid attacks

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-criminologists-working-with-government-to-explore-motivations-behind-acid-attacks

  Researchers from our Department of Criminology have launched a major research project, commissioned by the Home Office, into the motivations of offenders who carry and use acid in violent attacks.

• University of Leicester running free event on how war affects education

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/22-free-event-war-affects-education

  University of Sanctuary logo|Syrian professors provide first-hand account of teaching in war-torn country. People are invited to attend a free event at the University of Leicester to hear first-hand how war can affect education.

• University of Leicester researcher is awarded Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis Fellowship

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/02-mike-bray-fellowship

  A University of Leicester researcher has been awarded the Mike Bray Fellowship by Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis

• How medieval people named their animals is explored in new book 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/medieval-animal-names-books

  The relationship between medieval people and their pets is the topic of the latest book by the University of Leicester’s Dr Ben Parsons. Introducing Medieval Animal Names explores what names medieval people gave to the animals with which they lived and worked.

• GBBO finalist Josh to judge public’s attempts to turn science into cake

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gbbo-finalist-josh-judge-public-science-cake

  Dr Josh Smalley will judge a national baking contest run by the Medical Research Foundation

• Materials Researchers reflect on Postgraduate Internships

  https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/materials-researchers-reflect-on-postgraduate-internships

  Materials Centre Postgraduate Researchers, Dana Thompson and Sarah Key, have written about their experiences of completing internships earlier this year.

• Leicester researchers contribute to House of Lords report on light and noise pollution

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/house-of-lords

  Leicester researchers contribute to House of Lords report on light and noise pollution

• Ut vitam habeant – so that they may have life

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/centenary-celebrations-blog

  On 11 November 1918, the First World War came to an end and the following day Dr Astley Clarke wrote to the local newspaper to announce the creation of the 'Leicester University Fund', in celebration of peace and for the founding of a university college as a memorial.