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• About the School of Arts, Media, and Communication

  https://le.ac.uk/arts/about

  Find out more about the School of Arts, Media, and Communication at the University of Leicester. Formed in 2024, we are home to a range of research centres, as well as Languages at Leicester.

• Richard III landmarks ranked in Smithsonians 25 Great New Places to See list

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/richard-iii-landmarks-ranked-in-smithsonians-25-great-new-places-to-see-list

  Richard III landmarks around Leicester, including Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, the King Richard III Visitor Centre and Leicester Cathedral, have been ranked twelfth place in the Smithsonian's 'The 21st Century Life List: 25 Great New Places to See'.

• Moonstruck Exhibition eclipses expectations

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/moonstruck-exhibition-eclipses-expectations

  Record numbers of visitors attended Leicester Cathedral for a University-sponsored British Science Week Festival event in the city.

• Clare Anderson

  https://le.ac.uk/people/clare-anderson

  Information and contact details for Professor Clare Anderson FBA, Professor of History and Director, LIAS, at the University of Leicester.

• Permissible Beauty

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/permissible-beauty

  Permissible Beauty examines how beauty has been defined, hailed and perceived in the past and how this is reflected in – and shaped by – our nation’s heritage.

• Stanley Burton Centre PhD Scholarship

  https://le.ac.uk/history/study/research-degrees/stanley-burton-centre-phd-scholarships

  The Stanley Burton Centre is offering two PhD scholarships (fee-waiver) in Holocaust and Genocide Studies to mark its 30th anniversary year.

• Consumption, Markets and Society

  https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/consumption-markets-and-society

  We are an internationally renowned leader in interdisciplinary market research. We draw on concepts from anthropology, cultural studies, geographic area, history, media studies and more in addition to the business, organisational and consumer research literature.

• University of Leicester remembers playwright Joe Orton

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/august/university-of-leicester-remembers-playwright-joe-orton

  Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton and the occasion is being marked by a host of events remembering his work and involving our University. Joe Orton (1933-1967) was a leading postwar playwright.

• The “Pains of Imprisonment”: an historical sociology of penal transportation?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/11/11/the-pains-of-imprisonment-an-historical-sociology-of-penal-transportation/

  Posted by Clare Anderson in Carceral Archipelago on November 11, 2016   A few years ago, the eminent scholar of the Russian Gulag , Professor Judith Pallot , challenged me to consider the relevance of the sociology of incarceration as a means of understanding convict...

• First World War remembered

  https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/first-world-war

  With the support of Leicester Arts and Museums Services and the University of Leicester, over 300 interviews with those who lived through WWI in Leicestershire have been edited into sound clips and created into a collection. Find out more.