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• Event to discuss the 2016 Presidential Election and political divisions in the United States

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/event-to-discuss-the-2016-presidential-election-and-political-divisions-in-the-united-states

  A visiting professor from the United States will be discussing the 2016 US Presidential Election and the politically polarised state of the country during a free public lecture on Monday 24 October.

• What is history for?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/04/10/what-is-history-for-thinking-about-forced-migration-and-its-aftermath/

  University of Leicester staff blogs convicts penal colonies slavery migration

• 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.

• 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.

• First evidence for Julius Caesars invasion of Britain discovered by Leicester team

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/first-evidence-for-julius-caesars-invasion-of-britain-discovered-by-leicester-team

  The first evidence for Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain has been discovered by a team from our School of Archaeology and Ancient History. The findings will be explored as part of the BBC Four’s Digging For Britain on Wednesday 29 November at 9:00PM.

• Research facility

  https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research/biomarker-facility/research

  The van Geest grant will enable further interactions between scientists and clinicians in a dedicated cardiovascular research centre, where detailed studies of a patient’s protein and metabolite make-up will complement their clinical and demographic data, and in combination...

• 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.

• Summertime, and the Gibbeting ain’t Easy… By Emma Battell Lowman

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/06/20/summertime-gibbet/

  Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on June 20, 2016     Today is officially the first day of summer, and I welcome the season this year particularly grateful for something that this time last year hadn’t even crossed my mind.

• University of Leicester staff blog School of English BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Joe Or

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/06/26/bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on June 26, 2014 The BBC’s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.

• University of Leicester Staff Blog School of English Literary Leicester: Unveiling Joe Orton’s Enter

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/10/30/literary-leicester-unveiling-joe-ortons-entertaining-mr-sloane/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on October 30, 2014 Literary Leicester 14 November, 2014 1.