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• Leicester author shares untold story of Mary Attenborough

  Date: 25 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/mary-attenborough

  A Leicester historian says he is ‘absolutely certain’ that Mary Attenborough would have been front and centre in helping refugees and asylum...

• Literary endowment fund will create new ‘writer in residence’ and professorship

  Date: 24 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/jean-humphreys

  Literary endowment fund will create new ‘writer in residence’ and professorship at Leicester University

• Literary Festival returns to Leicester

  Date: 23 Feb 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/literary-leicester

  World-renowned authors will be heading to Leicester for one of the biggest and most diverse literary festivals in the East Midlands, taking place...

• The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research

  Date: 7 Feb 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter

  An international team of volunteers and amateur decoders have helped experts solve the enduring mystery of a letter written by celebrated novelist...

• Bestselling author Louise Doughty awarded Honorary Degree

  Date: 19 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/louise-doughty

  The bestselling Leicestershire-born author, playwright and journalist, Louise Doughty, has today (Wednesday 19 January) been awarded an Honorary...

• Leicester alumni recognised in New Year Honours 2022

  Date: 5 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/new-year-honours

  Outstanding achievements by University of Leicester alumni have been recognised in the New Year’s Honours List for 2022.

• Digging for Britain: Leicester Archaeology projects to feature on BBC

  Date: 4 Jan 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/digging-for-britain

  Projects led by Leicester archaeologists are to be showcased on the new series of BBC TWO’s primetime TV series Digging for Britain in the New Year.

• The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters

  Date: 16 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code

  Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season.

• New resource strips everyday Roman handwriting bare

  Date: 7 Dec 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/latinnow-manual

  A new open-access resource to help researchers study Roman handwriting has been released.

• Extraordinary Roman mosaic and villa discovered beneath farmer's field in Rutland

  Date: 25 Nov 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/november/rutland-mosaic

  Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK.