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University of Leicester

October 2025

  • Steve Coogan

    double quotation markI won’t apologise for The Lost King – Leicester University’s treatment of Philippa Langley is a profound injustice

    Steve Coogan
    I was sued over my film that gave a voice to the committed ‘amateur’ whose pivotal role in the search for the remains of Richard III was drowned out by louder voices in academia

September 2025

  • Jack Spence

    Jack Spence obituary

    Authority on politics in South Africa whose advice helped guide the country from apartheid to democracy

July 2025

  • Dave Cousins, second from right, with Strawbs’ members, from left, Dave Lambert, Chas Cronk, John Hawken and Rod Coombes. Cousins was a constant in the band’s changing lineup over 50 years.

    Dave Cousins obituary

    Founder and frontman of the Strawbs, the folk-rock group best known for their 1973 hit Part of the Union

March 2025

  • Brian Maidment

    Other lives
    Brian Maidment obituary

    Other lives: Academic expert on downmarket illustrated books, prints and ephemera of Georgian and Victorian eras

December 2024

  • Rosemarie Everton in 1998 in the Harry Peach law library at Leicester University, where she was a lecturer and senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law or more than 25 years.

    Other lives
    Rosemarie Everton obituary

    Other lives: Expert in fire law, and the first holder of a chair in the subject at the University of Central Lancashire

August 2024

  • The Bennett Building

    University of Leicester facing ‘major incident’ over crumbling buildings

  • Edward Derbyshire, right, on a field excursion in China, 1980

    Other lives
    Edward Derbyshire obituary

May 2024

  • Dennis Smith

    Other lives
    Dennis Smith obituary

    Other lives: Sociology professor who explored how the dynamics of humiliation enter politics, relationships and war

May 2023

  • Mike Bruford

    Other lives
    Mike Bruford obituary

    Other lives: Professor at Cardiff University who was an expert in conservation genetics

March 2023

  • Paul Messerschmidt for Other Lives

    Other lives
    Paul Messerschmidt obituary

  • The 1,800-year-old altar stone

    Folktale becomes reality as Roman altar unearthed at Leicester Cathedral

February 2023

  • MIchael Clarke

    Other lives
    Michael Clarke obituary

    Other lives: Teacher of English as a foreign language who worked at the Universities of Nottingham and East Anglia

December 2022

  • Harry Lloyd plays Richard III in The Lost King.

    Brief letters
    The Lost King’s fictional thread

    Brief letters: Richard III film | Bin the bread sauce | Affordance theory | Useless philosophers | A woman’s work | Comfy Crocs dumped

May 2022

  • The statue of Margaret Thatcher in Grantham.

    Leicester University ‘does not condone’ staff member egging Thatcher statue

    Jeremy Webster, arts centre deputy director, pictured throwing egg at statue of former PM in Grantham

April 2021

  • A common cuckoo on a branch

    Brief letters
    An optimist from cloud cuckoo land

    Brief letters: University of Leicester | Boris Johnson | BBC Radio 3 | First cuckoo | David Cameron

February 2021

  • Trevor Dannatt’s designs included homes, university campuses and public spaces.

    Trevor Dannatt obituary

    Architect renowned for his work on the Royal Festival Hall

September 2020

  • Students at the University of Leicester.

    University Guide 2023
    University guide 2023: University of Leicester

    All you need to know about studying at the University of Leicester

January 2020

  • Hans Kornberg pictured in his laboratory at Boston University in 2007.

    Sir Hans Kornberg obituary

    Biochemist who built on the work of Hans Krebs to make key discoveries concerning metabolic cycles

October 2019

  • Thomas Swann in Leicester in front of duck mural

    Temporary work at £9 an hour. No wonder lecturers are balloting to strike

  • Prof Amber Murrey at Oxford

    Home Office reverses visa decision for second Oxford academic

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