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  • 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...

  • Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

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

    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...

  • 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.

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