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• Wider-reaching solutions urgently needed to reach realistic ‘net zero’, warn researchers

  Date: 28 Jan 2022

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  There should be greater investment in using a wider group of experts to make decisions about how the landscape is managed if the UK is to reach...

• Britain’s largest ‘Sea Dragon’ discovered in Rutland

  Date: 10 Jan 2022

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  The fossilised remains of Britain’s largest ichthyosaur, colloquially known as a ‘Sea Dragon’, has been discovered at the Rutland Water Nature...

• Digging for Britain: Leicester Archaeology projects to feature on BBC

  Date: 4 Jan 2022

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  Projects led by Leicester archaeologists are to be showcased on the new series of BBC TWO’s primetime TV series Digging for Britain in the New Year.

• The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters

  Date: 16 Dec 2021

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  Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season.

• New resource strips everyday Roman handwriting bare

  Date: 7 Dec 2021

  /news/2021/december/latinnow-manual

  A new open-access resource to help researchers study Roman handwriting has been released.

• Extraordinary Roman mosaic and villa discovered beneath farmer's field in Rutland

  Date: 25 Nov 2021

  /news/2021/november/rutland-mosaic

  Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK.

• Leicester research at national Festival of Social Science

  Date: 11 Oct 2021

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  Three early-career researchers at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ have joined forces with a multi-award winning education platform to deliver a unique...

• Research reveals earliest evidence yet of huge hippos in Britain

  Date: 4 Oct 2021

  /news/2021/october/hippo-fossil

  Palaeobiologists have unearthed the earliest evidence yet of hippos in the UK.

• Potatoes and Peppa Pig: Young writers channel Leicester playwright

  Date: 17 Sep 2021

  /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.

• Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life

  Date: 13 Aug 2021

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  A multi-media exhibition led by a team of academics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has launched at the Wordsworth Museum – one of the Lake...