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Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Leicester's history. From the brutal murder of John Paas in 1832, whose killer became the last man in England to be gibbeted, and the poisoning of a seventy-year-old widow by two young men, to the fatal shooting of a young woman in 1919, a case which was known as the 'green bicycle murder' and was to become one of the most fascinating murder cases in legal history, this is a collection of the most dramatic and interesting criminal cases that have taken place in Leicester between the mid-1800s a

Somalis in Leicester explores the views and experiences of Somali communities living in Leicester, focusing on five areas of local policy—employment, education, health, political participation, and policing—as well as broader themes of belonging and identity.The presence of Somalis in the UK dates back to the late 19th century. Today, the Somali community of Leicester is one of the largest in the UK, and Leicester's Somalis can be divided into three broad categories: British-born Somalis, Somali refugees and asylum seekers (who came directly from Somalia as a result of the civil conflict), and Somalis who migrated to the UK from various EU countries such as the Netherlands.Somalis in Leicester is part of a seven-city research series, Somalis in European Cities, by the Open Society Foundations' At Home in Europe project, which examines the realities of people from Somali backgrounds in Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Malmo, Leicester, London, and Oslo.

MIGRATION HAS TRANSFORMED LEICESTER FROM A DULL PROVINCIAL MARKET TOWN INTO THE VIBRANT CAPITAL OF ASIA IN BRITAIN

In November 2023, the Bridge Initiative released a new report into the nature and presence of Hindu nationalism in the UK. Speaking to a country absorbed in conversation around multiculturalism and religious tensions, Chris Allen outlines what we can learn from Leicester and the rest of this report. A year on from the disturbances that … Continued