Current and recent Leicester projects

• The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: evidence, memories, inventions. Leverhulme Trust Research programme, Jan. 2011–Jan. 2016. Prof. J. Story (PI) Dr S. James, Prof. M. Jobling, Prof. S. Brown, Dr P. Shaw, Dr J. Carroll (U. of Nottingham), Dr T. King (Project Manager)
• HALOGEN: History, Archaeology, Linguistics, Onomastics and Genetics.
  JISC, Prof. M. Jobling (PI), Dr P. Shaw, Prof. J. Story, Dr J. Carroll (U of Nottingham)
• Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England (SPASE)
  Dr R Jones. AHRC Network (Leicester, Durham, Nottingham)
• The Production and Use of English Manuscripts, c. 1060–1220
  Professor E Treharne, Dr O Da Rold and Dr T Kato. AHRC (with Dr M Swan, University of Leeds
• Roots of the British 1000 BC to AD 1000: Histories, Genetics and the Peopling of Britain
  Dr J Story, Dr J Carroll, Dr S James and Professor M Jobling

Viking Ancestry

1. What’s in a Name? Applying patrilineal surnames to forensics, population history and genetic epidemiology
   Dr T King and Professor M Jobling (Wellcome Trust)
   
2. Genetic Survey of Wirral and W. Lancashire
   Professor M Jobling, Dr T King et al
3. Viking Identities Network (Nottingham, Leicester and Birmingham)
   Dr J Carroll

Medieval History

• The River Nile in the Western Imagination
  Dr A Merrills
• Carolingian Polyptyques (HEA funded)
  Dr J Story, Dr J Palmer, Dr R Mobbs and N Palmer MA
• Charlemagne and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I
  Dr J Story (AHRC and British Academy)
• Willibrord, Bede, and the Letters of Pope Honorius I
  Dr J. Story (British Academy, Neil Ker Memorial Fund)
  

Medieval Archaeology

• The Whittlewood Project
  Prof C Dyer and Dr R Jones
  
• Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture: Huntingdonshire; Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
  Professor RJ Cramp (University of Durham) and Prof J Story (British Academy/AHRC) Hosted at the University of Durham.

• Archaeology: Excavations at Ad Novas Cesenatico, Italy
  Dr N Christie, D Sami, G Speed MA et al
• Archaeology: The Nature of Later Saxon and Norman Urbanisation in Britain - The Case of Wallingford
  Dr N Christie
• Archaeology: Leicester Abbey
  Dr J Story, J Bourne, R Buckley (Publication)
  
• Archaeology: St Margaret’s and St Peter’s Churches Leicester
  
• Archaeology: Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire