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

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

  The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...

• August Book Group: Late Short Stories

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/09/01/lateshortstories/

  Summary of the Evelyn Waugh Book Group's discussions of the later short stories

• September Book Group: Labels – The University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/09/28/september-book-group-labels/

  Evelyn Waugh Book Group write up on Waugh's 1930 travel book, Labels.

• Book Group: Brideshead Revisited

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/01/27/bookgroupbrideshead/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on January 27, 2014 Interpretations of Brideshead Revisited On Saturday 25th January 2014, the whole group met for the first time at Leicester Central Library to discuss Brideshead Revisited .

• Leading light in auroras to give prestigious astronomy lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/provan-aurora-lecture

  Dr Gabrielle Provan from the University of Leicester is to give the Royal Astronomical Society’s James Dungey Lecture, focusing on the auroral light displays on Earth and beyond

• Research team receives 65 million for EURO SHOCK heart attack study

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/research-team-receives-20ac6-5-million-for-euro-shock-heart-attack-study

  A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, UK - a partnership between Leicester’s Hospitals, the University of Leicester and Loughborough University - has been awarded €6.5 million from the Horizon 2020 European Commission fund.

• Addressing Liberty: Hayek, Gibraltar and The Road to Serfdom

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/02/04/addressing-liberty-hayek-gibraltar-and-the-road-to-serfdom/

  Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on February 4, 2015 Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott , outlines a little known escapade of a largely known economist     Friedrich Hayek’s ideas on how economies should...

• First Juno science results supported by Jupiter forecast by Leicester astronomers

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/first-juno-science-results-supported-by-jupiter-2018forecast2019-by-leicester-astronomers

  New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter’s weather and magnetic fields by our astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter by NASA’s Juno mission, announced today.

• Research to understand peatland policy ‘on the ground’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/november/peatlands

  Postgraduate research at the University of Leicester is seeking to understand how peatland policy is implemented at a local level, gaining insights from NGOs, farmers, landowners, researchers, and policymakers

• Archive Fever at the Harry Ransom Center (HRC)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2018/06/13/archive-fever-at-the-harry-ransom-center-hrc/

  Posted by gboland in Waugh and Words on June 13, 2018 Following a research visit to the Harry Ransom Center, CWEW editor of Waugh’s Helena, Sara Haslam, reflects on her illuminating experience.