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• Abolition and Adventure: Narratives of the Atlantic World

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en7254

  Module code: EN7254 Accounts of global travel and adventure were extremely popular with eighteenth-century British readers.

• Rhyme and ride with Arriva as Leicester gets literary

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/rhyme-and-ride-with-arriva-as-leicester-gets-literary

  Today, Leicester-based poet and performer Lydia Towsey will be hopping on and off local bus services to entertain passengers and raise awareness of Literary Leicester- our 10th celebration of the literary arts.

• Leicester scientist features in Canadian-British documentary providing new insights into life and death of Jumbo the elephant

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/leicester-scientist-features-in-canadian-british-documentary-providing-new-insights-into-life-and-death-of-jumbo-the-elephant

  New insights into the life and mysterious death of Jumbo the elephant – a celebrity animal superstar whose story is said to have inspired the film ‘Dumbo’ – will be revealed in an international documentary featuring Dr Richard Thomas (pictured) from our School of...

• UK university returns century-old gesture by gifting books to Smithsonian

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/smithsonian

  The University of Leicester returned a 100-year-old gesture from the Smithsonian during a ceremony to cement the institutions’ transatlantic partnership.

• Expert panel to open up menopause ‘taboo’ at public discussion

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/difficult-conversations-menopause

  Professor King said: “What we wanted to do with this series is to talk about topics that are potentially quite difficult ones to talk about.

• Leicester Spinout Company Perpetual Atomics to Transform Power Generation in Space

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/october/perpetual-atomics

  Space Park Leicester and the University of Leicester to launch new space nuclear power systems, space science and exploration spin-out company at International Astronautical Congress (IAC)

• Leicester praised in new book on science communications

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/february/fiona-fox-book

  Award-winning work by the University of Leicester in improving science communications has been featured in a new book by Fiona Fox from the Science Media Centre.

• Potatoes and Peppa Pig: Young writers channel Leicester playwright

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/edna-welthorpe-winners

  A spoof letter of complaint written by a London school pupil has won a competition inspired by Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

• Richard III's diet and lifestyle

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/what-we-know-now/diet-and-lifestyle

  By measuring the different isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and strontium preserved in Richard III's skeleton, we can find out about the types of food and drink he consumed, as well as where he lived.

• The Diary of a Dissection: Jane Jamieson and the Newcastle Barber Surgeons. By Patrick Low

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/09/19/diary-of-a-dissection/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on September 19, 2016   The recent furore in France, over the wearing of Burkinis, has shone a new light on an age-old societal problem; the female body.