Question: What university in Leicester, England has a historian as a provost?
Context: Thomas Fielding Johnson (24 December 1828 – 1921) was a prominent Victorian businessman and philanthropist in Leicester, England.  Among his many acts of public spiritedness and generosity was the donation in 1919 of a 37 acre site and buildings for the establishment of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland University College which finally became the University of Leicester. John Strachan (born 12 April 1961) is a literary critic, historian and poet, Professor of English and Vice Provost at Bath Spa University, England.  He was educated at the University of Southampton and Oxford University.  Strachan specialises in Romanticism and is author of "Poetry", which was released in 2000 by Edinburgh University Press.  He has published numerous articles in the fields of history, sport studies and poetry.  In 2013 he collaborated with numerous artists and poets to create "Their Colours and their Forms: Artists' Responses to Wordsworth", which included some of his own poetry.  He lives in Bath, Somerset.  As an author, he is widely held in libraries worldwide. Saffron Lane sports centre is a large 8 lane (9 lane straight) 400 metre synthetic floodlight lit running track which includes a steeplechase water jump, in Leicester, England.  It is home to the city's top two athletics clubs, the sprint and field specialists Leicester Coritanian A.C. and the middle and long distance specialists, OWLS AC Leicester.  Other athletics squads train at the track, namely Leicester Walking Club, some members of University of Leicester athletics team among other local running clubs. The Leicester Royal Infirmary (LRI) is a National Health Service hospital in Leicester, England.  It is located to the south-west of the city centre.  It has Leicester's accident and emergency department, and is part of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. The University of Leicester ( ) is a public research university based in Leicester, England.  The main campus is south of the city centre, adjacent to Victoria Park. The University of Leicester Harold Martin Botanic Garden is a botanic garden close to the halls of residence for the University of Leicester in Oadby, Leicestershire, England.  Founded in 1921, the garden was established on the present 16 acre site in 1947.  The garden is used for research and teaching purposes by the university's Genetics (formerly Biology) Department and features events such as sculpture and art exhibitions, music performances and plant sales.  It is open to the public.  The gardens surround several Edwardian era houses which are now part of Leicester University's halls of residence, including Beaumont House, The Knoll, and Southmeade. Mark Andrew Peel (born 17 October 1959), historian and academic, is the Provost at the University of Leicester.  He was formerly the Pro Vice Chancellor (Student Experience) and the Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at that university, a Professor of Modern Cultural and Social History and Head of the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool and a Professor and Head of the School of Historical Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University in Australia.  He holds degrees from Flinders University (BA (Hons), 1980 and MA, 1983), Johns Hopkins University (MA, 1985) and Melbourne University (PhD, 1993) and was appointed a full Professor in 2007.  He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2008 and became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2010. Leicester City Centre is an area covering the core inner city area and central business district of the city of Leicester, England.  The City Centre is roughly delineated from Leicester's inner urban districts by the A594, Leicester's inner ring road, although the various central campuses of the University of Leicester, De Monfort University and Leicester College are contiguous to the inner ring road and could be considered to be a continuation of the City centre.  In a similar way, the Leicester Royal Infirmary precinct, the Welford Road Stadium of Leicester Tigers' RUFC and the King Power Stadium of Premier League Leicester City to the south, and the Golden Mile to the north could also be deemed to be extensions to the central core. Dr David Reeder (May 5, 1931 – August 1, 2005) was a British historian at the University of Leicester.  After graduating from Nunthorpe Grammar School he won a scholarship at the University of Durham, where he was Editor of Palatinate.  Reeder took his PhD at the University of Leicester.  He pursued a career in urban history and the history of education, co-founding the Urban History Group and editing the Urban History Yearbook for nine years. Robert Howard Hodgkin (24 April 1877 – 28 June 1951) was a historian of modern history at Queen's College in Oxford, and served as its provost from 1937 until 1946.  In 1900 he was named a lecturer of modern history at the college, and from 1928 to 1934 was the "University lecturer" in that subject.  His seminal work, "A History of the Anglo-Saxons", was published in 1935.  Hodgkin was part of a family of historians; his father, Thomas Hodgkin, was a recognized historian of Europe in the Middle Ages in addition to a banker, while his son, Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, was a Marxist historian of Africa.
Answer: University of Leicester