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• Keep Calm and Scroll On! (Pt.3)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/04/23/keep-calm-and-scroll-on-pt-3/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library Special Collections on April 23, 2020   Exterior of the Library, c.

• Students discover Leicesters literary secrets on Joe Orton walking tour

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/students-discover-leicesters-literary-secrets-on-joe-orton-walking-tour

  This year the University of Leicester has been celebrating the work of Joe Orton. The Leicester-born playwright is one of our city’s most treasured cultural icons and 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of his tragic death.

• Experiencing Evelyn Waugh: Reflections of a Complete Works Student Volunteer

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2019/02/13/experiencing-evelyn-waugh-reflections-of-a-complete-works-student-volunteer/

  Posted by gboland in Waugh and Words on February 13, 2019 Isabella at CWEW headquarters, University of Leicester Hailing from the University of Melbourne, English Literature student and Evelyn Waugh enthusiast, Isabella Hanger got in touch with the Complete Works,  in...

• New professor of Nursing and Child Health appointed

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/joseph-manning

  The University of Leicester is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Joseph Manning MBE as Professor of Nursing and Child Health within the School of Healthcare.

• Finalist positions for our University and College Court in local and national tourism hospitality awards

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/october/finalist-positions-for-our-university-and-college-court-in-local-and-national-tourism-hospitality-awards

  Our University has been shortlisted in no less than nine categories for awards that recognise leading tourism and hospitality organisations, at both a local and national level.

• Scoliosis

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/osteology/scoliosis

  One compelling aspect of Shakespeare’s Richard III is his deformity. In the play the king is described as ‘hunchbacked’ and there has been considerable disagreement since whether this is real or a politically motivated invention of his enemies.

• The Geography of the Criminal Corpse: Magic, therapies and bodily pieces across Europe. By Francesca

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/01/19/francesca-matteoni-the-geography-of-the-criminal-corpse-magic-therapies-and-bodily-pieces-across-europe/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on January 19, 2016   I have been involved in the first two years of the project as a postdoctoral researcher working on the medico-magical employment of the criminal corpse’s pieces: hands, fingers,...

• Sounds in the silence of political exile

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2015/07/01/sounds-in-the-silence-of-political-exile/

  Posted by Carrie Crockett in Carceral Archipelago on July 1, 2015 Sochaczewski placed himself right of the obelisk, standing My recent discovery of Alexander Sochaczewski’s painting, Farewell to Europe!,  in the Museum Pawilon-X in Warsaw compelled me to think anew...

• A tribute to Professor Tony Gershlick

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/tribute-to-professor-tony-gershlick

  Professor Anthony (Tony) Gershlick, a Consultant Cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital and Professor of Interventional Cardiology, has died aged 69.

• On Difficulty in Early Modern Literature

  https://le.ac.uk/english/research/research-projects/past-projects/on-difficulty

  Project overview This project is an ongoing research collaboration between Hannah Crawforth (KCL) and Sarah Knight in the School of Arts which brings together scholars working on different aspects of difficulty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing.