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• 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...

• Schoolchildren from Leicester to send messages of hope to refugee camp

  Date: 13 Jun 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/14-refugee-camp

  Appeal for more schools to become ‘Schools of Sanctuary’. Children from a Leicester school are to send messages of hope to a refugee camp in Greece.

• Colonial Countryside project featured on A Place in the Country

  Date: 2 May 2019

  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 Apr 2019

  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 Apr 2019

  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 Mar 2019

  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 of Leicester running free event on how war affects education

  Date: 22 Feb 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/22-free-event-war-affects-education

  Syrian professors provide first-hand account of teaching in war-torn country.

• A poetic double helix

  Date: 20 Feb 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/february/20-innovative-poem-complex-structure-of-dna

  Innovative poem by University of Leicester academics reflects complex structure of DNA.

• University student benefits from new student finance package

  Date: 14 Jan 2019

  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.