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  • The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter

    The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...

  • David Johnson

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2023/david-johnson

    We have learned, with sadness, of the death of Mr David Thomas Johnson, a former Dean of Arts and more recently Honorary Fellow in History. David passed away on 17 November 2023, aged 83.

  • Clare Anderson: Page 2

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/clare_anderson/page/2/

    I am a professor of history, with interests in colonialism and colonial societies across the British Empire. I am especially interested in the history of confinement.

  • Jean Humphreys (1924-2019)

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/jean-humphreys

    It is with great sadness we have learned of the death of a much-loved and dedicated friend of the University, Mrs Jean Humphreys.

  • Sensational anti-drag queen David Hoyle to give special free performance in Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/february/sensational-anti-drag-queen-david-hoyle-to-give-special-free-performance-in-leicester

    Sensational anti-drag queen David Hoyle is giving a special free performance in Leicester as part of LGBT+ History Month being marked at our University. Hoyle came to prominence in the 1990s as the Divine David.

  • University of Leicester staff blog School of English The School of English’s Superstar Tutor

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/23/the-school-of-englishs-superstar-tutor/

    Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on June 23, 2014 The School of English’s Dr Ben Parsons was named Superstar Tutor of 2014 for the College of Arts, Humanities and Law.

  • Julian North

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/jrn8/

    Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Leicester.

  • smitschke

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/sam91/

    Looting the Archives: Joe Orton Posted by smitschke in School of English Blog on May 13, 2016 Dr. Samantha Mitschke has been working in the School of Arts as an AHRC Cultural Engagement Fellow since February.

  • Victoria Stewart

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/vas6/

    Victoria Stewart is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature in the School of English.

  • Plaque to mark Barwell Christmas Eve meteorite unveiled

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/december/green-plaque-to-mark-barwell-meteorite-which-landed-in-1965-unveiled

    A green plaque marking the surprise arrival of a large meteorite in the village of Barwell on Christmas Eve in 1965 has been unveiled at the junction of Chapel Street and Dawson's Lane - close to the site of the meteorite fall.

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