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• Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright to share personal story of resilience at Literary Leicester event

  Date: 20/10/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/fred-daguiar

  Multiple award-winning poet, novelist and playwright will be giving the University of Leicester an exclusive insight into his personal story of...

• Leicester to showcase humanities research at 2021 Being Human festival

  Date: 11/10/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/october/being-human

  University of Leicester experts from disciplines as diverse as English literature, archaeology and criminology – and a whole lot more – have...

• Potatoes and Peppa Pig: Young writers channel Leicester playwright

  Date: 17/09/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/edna-welthorpe-winners

  A spoof letter of complaint written by a London school pupil has won a competition inspired by Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

• Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life

  Date: 13/08/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/wordsworth-exhibition

  A multi-media exhibition led by a team of academics at the University of Leicester has launched at the Wordsworth Museum – one of the Lake...

• Student competition brings Leicester playwright’s alter ego to life

  Date: 19/05/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/edna-welthorpe-competition

  A popular creative writing competition launched by the University of Leicester is once again open for entries – this year supported by the...

• Booker Prize-winner to join Literary Leicester Festival

  Date: 05/03/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/march/literary-leicester

  Booker Prize-winner Marlon James will be headlining the revival of the Literary Leicester Festival.

• Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes

  Date: 10/06/2020 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/colonial-countryside

  Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity.

• Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize

  Date: 03/05/2020 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/may/cricket-country-shortlisted

  A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the...

• Documentary and discussion panel on women film directors

  Date: 15/11/2019 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/18-half-the-picture

  A film screening and panel discussion at Phoenix on 26 November will explore the continuing under-representation of women among film directors.

• Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight

  Date: 11/11/2019 00:00:00

  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.