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• Professor Richard Thomas and Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney go 'Digging for Britain' on BBC4

  Date: 27 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/27-digging-for-britain

  Professor Richard Thomas from our School of Archaeology and Ancient History features on tonight's episode of Digging for Britain as series 2...

• Plutarch’s domestic life explored in public lecture by expert in ancient history

  Date: 20 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/20-plutarch-talk

  Ancient Greek writer Plutarch is the subject of a free public lecture at the University of Leicester on 26 November.

• Fantastic Beasts and Where I Found Them

  Date: 15 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/15-fantastic-beasts-and-where-i-found-them

  Join us for the first in a revamped series of Professorial Inaugural Lectures as Professor Richard Thomas discusses his research into human-animal...

• Staff recognised at the Discovering Excellence Awards

  Date: 15 Nov 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/15-discovering-excellence-staff-awards

  Last night staff from across the University of Leicester celebrated the innovation, creativity and dedication of our fantastic colleagues at the...

• Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight

  Date: 11 Nov 2019

  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: 8 Nov 2019

  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...

• Civil rights expert to deliver annual American Studies lecture

  Date: 13 Oct 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/october/14-american-studies-lecture

  An expert on the history of the Black Power movement will deliver a free public lecture at the University of Leicester on Monday 21 October.

• Civil War exhibition draws on Leicester expertise

  Date: 10 Sep 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/september/11-civil-war-exhibition

  University of Leicester staff and students have contributed research expertise and advice to a new exhibition at the National Civil War Centre in...

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

  Date: 24 Jul 2019

  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 Jul 2019

  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...