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• Public lecture puts Dickens’ marriage under the spotlight

  Date: 11 Nov 2019

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  Charles Dickens’ strained marriage is the subject of a free public lecture presented on Wednesday 20 November 2019 by our Victorian Studies Centre.

• Joe Orton artworks to be auctioned for appeal

  Date: 8 Nov 2019

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  To support a campaign to crowdfund a statue of the iconic British playwright Joe Orton in his hometown of Leicester the Estate of Joe Orton is...

• University backs campaign for statue of iconic Leicester playwright Joe Orton

  Date: 24 Jul 2019

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s involvement with, and celebration of, the legacy of Leicester playwright Joe Orton continues with the announcement...

• Literary experts and historians from around the world gather in Leicester to celebrate George Eliot’s bicentenary

  Date: 16 Jul 2019

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ will this week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 July) play host to an international conference marking the 200th anniversary...

• Colonial Countryside project featured on A Place in the Country

  Date: 2 May 2019

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  ITV programme explores research into connections between English country houses, Africa, the Caribbean and East India Company.

• Leicester to host national conference on Black British history

  Date: 16 Apr 2019

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Centre for New Writing is set to host the prestigious Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ 10th Black British...

• Leicester academic to chair expert panel at the British Library

  Date: 16 Apr 2019

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  Dr Emma Parker, Associate Professor of Postwar and Contemporary Literature in the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Department of English, will chair a...

• New research reveals the man behind Samuel Pepys’s love for portraits

  Date: 27 Mar 2019

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  Samuel Pepys, the Restoration diarist who meticulously documented his life in 1660s London, also documented himself in other ways – through portraits.

• University student benefits from new student finance package

  Date: 14 Jan 2019

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  First-year English student becomes one of the first to benefit from generous financial support.

• Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards

  Date: 1 Oct 2018

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  Leicester academics win East Midlands Women’s Awards, Professor Emma Bunce and Dr Emma Parker claimed wins at last week’s ceremony