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

  Date: 25/07/2019 00:00:00

  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: 17/07/2019 00:00:00

  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: 03/05/2019 00:00:00

  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 academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

  Date: 17/04/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/april/17-dr-emma-parker-joe-orton-british-library

  Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the University of Leicester’s Department of English, will chair a...

• Leicester to host national conference on Black British history

  Date: 17/04/2019 00:00:00

  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...

• New research reveals the man behind Samuel Pepys’s love for portraits

  Date: 27/03/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/march/27-samuel-pepys-portraits

  Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist who meticulously documented his life in 1660s London, also documented himself in other ways – through portraits.

• University student benefits from new student finance package

  Date: 14/01/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/january/14-student-benefits-from-new-finance-package

  First-year English student becomes one of the first to benefit from generous financial support.

• Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards

  Date: 02/10/2018 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/2-womens-awards

  Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards, Professor Emma Bunce and Dr Emma Parker claimed wins at last week’s ceremony

• Diverse range of events taking place at the University of Leicester to celebrate Black History Month 2018

  Date: 28/09/2018 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/28-black-history-month

  Mental health discussions, student-led initiatives and Leicester’s hidden Black history among events marking Black History Month in the UK

• Evelyn Waugh project will be ‘one of the great monuments of twenty-first century literary scholarship’

  Date: 17/09/2018 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/17-evelyn-waugh-praise

  Praise from Times Literary Supplement for University of Leicester project to publish novelist Evelyn Waugh's entire output.