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• Showcasing talent free public event to discuss raising the profile of Leicester and Leicestershires literary scene

  Date: 13 Dec 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/showcasing-talent-free-public-event-to-discuss-raising-the-profile-of-leicester-and-leicestershire2019s-literary-scene

  Raising the roof on Leicester’s literary talent will be a subject up for discussion between members of the public and key figures from the city...

• Leicester event to explore human rights issues through film and the Arts

  Date: 28 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/leicester-event-to-explore-human-rights-issues-through-film-and-the-arts

  As part of the 2017 Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, an event will be taking place to address the ‘migration crisis’ through the...

• Bestselling author Kate Summerscale to give lecture on Detecting Victorian Crime at Leicester

  Date: 28 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/bestselling-author-kate-summerscale-to-give-lecture-on-2018detecting-victorian-crime2019-at-leicester

  Author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale will give the annual Victorian Studies Centre lecture at the University...

• Joe Orton on the BBC

  Date: 23 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/joe-orton-on-the-bbc

  Material from the University of Leicester has played a key role in the making of a new documentary on the celebrated Leicester playwright Joe Orton.

• Video interview with street artist released

  Date: 22 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/video-interview-with-street-artist-released

  A video interview with street artist Stewy, who created artwork in our University Library, has now been released.

• Museum of the Bible opens

  Date: 17 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/museum-of-the-bible-opens

  The Museum of the Bible opened today (Friday) in Washington DC.

• Victorian Studies Centre marks 50th anniversary with convivial evening celebrating the works of Charles Dickens

  Date: 15 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/victorian-studies-centre-marks-50th-anniversary-with-convivial-evening-celebrating-the-works-of-charles-dickens

  The University of Leicester’s Victorian Studies Centre is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a convivial Dickensian evening on 22 November,...

• Rhyme and ride with Arriva as Leicester gets literary

  Date: 15 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/rhyme-and-ride-with-arriva-as-leicester-gets-literary

  Today, Leicester-based poet and performer Lydia Towsey will be hopping on and off local bus services to entertain passengers and raise awareness...

• Crosscultural dialogue around themes of home belonging and refuge at Journeys in Translation event

  Date: 14 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/cross-cultural-dialogue-around-themes-of-home-belonging-and-refuge-at-2018journeys-in-translation2019-event

  On Thursday 23 November, an event hosted by the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (LeCTIS) will explore the unifying aspects of...

• Literary Leicester to host one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British Fiction Gwendoline Riley

  Date: 14 Nov 2017

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/literary-leicester-to-host-2018one-of-the-most-distinctive-voices-in-contemporary-british-fiction2019-gwendoline-riley

  The University of Leicester will welcome award-winning novelist Gwendoline Riley to campus on Friday 17 November for the tenth annual Literary...