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  • Celebrating Austerity

    Posted by Daniela Rudloff in School of Business Blog on July 15, 2015 Iain Duncan Smith MP was in uncharacteristically exuberant mood during last week’s Budget speech. Daniela Rudloff , Lecturer at the School and Director of Undergraduate Studies, was not.

  • Funny bones macabre humour in the Dance of Death

    The haunting tale of a married couple who tragically lost nine of their ten children in infancy and later died in a state of Dickensian poverty sounds like a fitting story for Halloween - but for many people in the 19th century this exposure to death was commonplace and...

  • Parental monitoring of internet use

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 15, 2014 Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2014 The latest report from Ofcom presents findings on the use of new media by British children and the role of parents in...

  • Matthew Graham-Brown

    Biography of Early Career Researcher

  • Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016   When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.

  • Faradays interns best poster

    Zayd Islam and Punit Jivan performed an internship at the Material Centre during the past summer, which were carried out in the frame of the Faraday Undergraduate Summer Experience (FUSE) internship programme.

  • Book Group: Pigeon Pie

    Summary of the Waugh Book Group discussion of Nancy Mitford's Pigeon Pie, Saturday 16 May 2015

  • Vile Bodies: The photograph! The painting! The half-finished book!

    A biographical article by Duncan McClaren on Waugh's first marriage and the writing of Vile Bodies.

  • Leicester professor interviewed for upcoming Canaletto exhibition at the Queens Gallery

    Venetian born artist Canaletto is most famous for his iconic cityscapes of 18th Century Venice and London and counted King George III among his numerous fans. As a result of the king’s favour, to this day a sizeable proportion of Canaletto’s work is held by the Royal Collection.

  • Barbara Cooke

    Research Associate for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project.

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