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  • Book Group: A Tourist in Africa

    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’.

  • Wedding Season – The University of Leicester

    Evelyn Waugh and his first marriage to Evelyn Gardner

  • Observing Jupiter’s 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.

  • Barbara Cooke

    Research Associate for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project.

  • Waugh and Words: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 2

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • December Book Group: Officers and Gentlemen

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

  • The Jupiter Time Capsule; University of Leicester Staff Blogs

    Juno's microwave instrument will provide new insights into the global composition of Jupiter and the origins of the giant planet.

  • A change of plan for Juno’s orbit

    Posted by Rosie Johnson in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on November 14, 2016 This artist’s rendering shows NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter.

  • 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

    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.

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