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  • University of Leicester Announces Exciting Summer Events Programme in Partnership with Attenborough Arts Centre and Oadby & Wigston Borough Council

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/june/attenborough-arts-summer-events

    The University of Leicester is delighted to unveil its 2025 Summer events programme, delivered with Attenborough Arts Centre, in partnership with Oadby & Wigston Borough Council.

  • The schoolboy sketches of John Leech

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...

  • Dryad Collection – basket weaving

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2022/08/30/the-dryad-collection-basket-weaving/

    Posted by cl13 in Library Special Collections on August 30, 2022 As I catalogue the Dryad Collection , I was surprised to see that the books on basket weaving not only included “How to” manuals, but also books that were concerned with the cultivation of the types of natural...

  • Evelyn Waugh at the Huntington

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2016/07/08/evelyn-waugh-at-the-huntington/

    Rationale for the Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector symposium to be held at the Huntington Library, 5-6 May 2017

  • Long-time LGBTQ+ rights activist awarded Honorary Degree

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/tom-robinson

    A singer-songwriter and broadcaster famous for his long-time political activism has been awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Leicester at a ceremony today (Friday 21 January).

  • Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3158

    Module code: EN3158 In this module you will be reading Jane Austen’s novels in their historical and literary contexts, as well as looking at modern screen adaptations.

  • Professor Paul Boyle to chair expert panel

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/january/professor-paul-boyle-to-chair-expert-panel

    Professor Paul Boyle is among seven leading scientists who are set to form a revitalised Scottish Science Advisory Council (SSAC) to advise Scottish Ministers from 1 February.

  • Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3158

    Module code: EN3158 In this module you will be reading Jane Austen’s novels in their historical and literary contexts, as well as looking at modern screen adaptations.

  • Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations

    https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/en3158

    Module code: EN3158 In this module you will be reading Jane Austen’s novels in their historical and literary contexts, as well as looking at modern screen adaptations.

  • Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earths climate half a billion years ago

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/may/tiny-fossils-unlock-clues-to-earth2019s-climate-half-a-billion-years-ago

    An international collaboration of scientists, led by the University of Leicester, has investigated Earth’s climate over half a billion years ago by combining climate models and chemical analyses of fossil shells about 1mm long.

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