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• Finding Helena

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2020/04/28/finding-helena/

  Posted by in Waugh and Words on April 28, 2020 May 3rd is the Feast of the Finding of the True Cross. Here Sara Haslam, our volume editor for Evelyn Waugh’s novel about St Helena, reflects on the time she has spent with the woman Waugh credits with the discovery.

• Reflecting upon Four Years of Criminal Corpses. By Rachel Bennett

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/09/06/reflecting-upon-four-years-of-criminal-corpses-by-rachel-bennett/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on September 6, 2016   Almost four years ago to the day I travelled to Leicester to attend my first PhD supervisory meeting armed with only a pen, a notepad and a head swirling with ideas.

• An Oxford Quarrel: Evelyn Waugh and Hugh Trevor-Roper

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/09/19/an-oxford-quarrel-evelyn-waugh-and-hugh-trevor-roper/

  Milena Borden gives a brief history of Evelyn Waugh's hostile relationship with Hugh Trevor-Roper - and asks what it tells us about Oxford's post-war battle of ideas.

• December Book Group: Officers and Gentlemen

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/12/19/officers/

  Summary of the December 2014 meeting of the Waugh Book Group, Leicester

• Wedding Season – The University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/06/27/wedding-season/

  Evelyn Waugh and his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner

• August Book Group: Helena

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/09/03/august-book-group-helena/

  Summary of Waugh Book Group meeting on Helena, held at Leicester Central Library on 29 August 2015.

• Making learning outcomes work for social responsibility and not neoliberalism – University of Leices

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/03/14/socialresp/

  The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. Making learning outcomes work for social responsibility and not neoliberalism.

• Arguing against learning outcomes: limited evidence and moving forward – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/05/08/limitedevidence/

  The 'Learning Outcomes Project' at the University of Leicester. Arguing against learning outcomes: limited evidence and moving forward.

• Book Group: A Tourist in Africa

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/06/29/tourist-2/

  Posted by Barbara Cooke in Waugh and Words on June 29, 2015 First Edition of A Tourist in Africa (1960) Before last Saturday, I kept quiet about A Tourist in Africa ’s reputation as Waugh’s ‘worst book’.

• Observing Jupiter’s auroras with Hubble

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/30/observing-jupiters-auroras-with-hubble/

  Posted by Jonathan Nichols in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 30, 2016   Unfortunately, they don’t let you take observing trips to the Hubble Space Telescope; perhaps the only downside to using the veteran observatory.