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• Student competition brings Leicester playwright’s alter ego to life

  Date: 19/05/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/edna-welthorpe-competition

  A popular creative writing competition launched by the University of Leicester is once again open for entries – this year supported by the...

• Booker Prize-winner to join Literary Leicester Festival

  Date: 05/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/literary-leicester

  Booker Prize-winner Marlon James will be headlining the revival of the Literary Leicester Festival.

• Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes

  Date: 10/06/2020 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/colonial-countryside

  Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity.

• Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize

  Date: 03/05/2020 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/cricket-country-shortlisted

  A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the...

• Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight

  Date: 11/11/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/11-dickens-lecture

  Charles Dickens’ strained marriage is the subject of a free public lecture presented on Wednesday 20 November 2019 by our Victorian Studies Centre.

• Joe Orton artworks to be auctioned for appeal

  Date: 08/11/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/08-joe-orton-artworks-to-be-auctioned-for-appeal

  To support a campaign to crowdfund a statue of the iconic British playwright Joe Orton in his hometown of Leicester the Estate of Joe Orton is...

• University backs campaign for statue of iconic Leicester playwright Joe Orton

  Date: 24/07/2019 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-joe-orton-statue

  The University of Leicester’s involvement with, and celebration of, the legacy of Leicester playwright Joe Orton continues with the announcement...

• Literary experts and historians from around the world gather in Leicester to celebrate George Eliot’s bicentenary

  Date: 16/07/2019 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/17-george-eliot

  The University of Leicester will this week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 July) play host to an international conference marking the 200th anniversary...

• Colonial Countryside project featured on A Place in the Country

  Date: 02/05/2019 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/03-country-houses

  ITV programme explores research into connections between English country houses, Africa, the Caribbean and East India Company.

• Leicester to host national conference on Black British history

  Date: 16/04/2019 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-black-british-history-workshop

  The University of Leicester and the Centre for New Writing is set to host the prestigious Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ 10th Black British...