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• University of Leicester research into Joe Orton’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell to feature in LGBTQ+ mental health exhibition

  Date: 7 Mar 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/poetic-licence

  A play about the Leicester-born playwright, Joe Orton, informed by research from the University of Leicester, will feature in The Netherlands’...

• Mick Herron, Bernadine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal headline 2023 Literary Leicester festival

  Date: 1 Mar 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/literary-leicester

  The programme for Literary Leicester, the University of Leicester's annual free literary festival, has been announced today.

• University of Leicester launches exhibition celebrating 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

  Date: 15 Feb 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/shakespeare

  The University of Leicester is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio with an exhibition at the David Wilson Library.

• University of Leicester bestows honour on English student-turned-inspiring-author

  Date: 20 Jan 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/jeffrey-boakye

  A University of Leicester graduate who has enjoyed a successful career as an author, broadcaster and educator has been awarded an honorary degree...

• Dickens codebreakers recognised at Higher Education ‘Oscars’

  Date: 18 Nov 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/november/the-awards-2022

  The Dickens Code project, led by the University of Leicester in collaboration with the University of Foggia, takes home a Times Higher Education...

• University of Leicester celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/adrian-mole

  University of Leicester is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged...

• University of Leicester appoints Science Museum Principal Curator for key leadership post

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/tilly-blyth

  The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator will join the University of Leicester as its new Head of the School of Museum Studies.

• BBC Book of the Week author set to inspire our English students

  Date: 16 Aug 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/august/kit-de-waal-english-leicester

  The author of this week’s BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week will be inspiring students on the University of Leicester’s English course, from September.

• BBC drama novelist residency set to inspire English students

  Date: 9 Jun 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/june/kit-de-waal

  The novelist behind a new uplifting BBC television drama will be sharing the skills behind her writing with students at the University of Leicester.

• Best-selling crime author visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”!

  Date: 29 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/val-mcdermid

  Best-selling crime author Val McDermid visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”