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• Leicester scholar’s Bible ushers in new royal chapter (and verse)

  Date: 5 May 2023

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  The Quatercentenary Edition of the King James Bible, prepared by Â鶹ÊÓƵ academic Professor Gordon Campbell in 2011, will be used...

• Ukrainian students find sanctuary at Â鶹ÊÓƵ

  Date: 7 Mar 2023

  /news/2023/march/ukraine-students

  Four Ukrainian students have travelled one-and-a-half thousand miles to find sanctuary – and continue their studies – at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ research into Joe Orton’s relationship with Kenneth Halliwell to feature in LGBTQ+ mental health exhibition

  Date: 7 Mar 2023

  /news/2023/march/poetic-licence

  A play about the Leicester-born playwright, Joe Orton, informed by research from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, will feature in The Netherlands’...

• Mick Herron, Bernadine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal headline 2023 Literary Leicester festival

  Date: 1 Mar 2023

  /news/2023/march/literary-leicester

  The programme for Literary Leicester, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ's annual free literary festival, has been announced today.

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ launches exhibition celebrating 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

  Date: 15 Feb 2023

  /news/2023/february/shakespeare

  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ is celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s First Folio with an exhibition at the David Wilson Library.

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ bestows honour on English student-turned-inspiring-author

  Date: 20 Jan 2023

  /news/2023/january/jeffrey-boakye

  A Â鶹ÊÓƵ graduate who has enjoyed a successful career as an author, broadcaster and educator has been awarded an honorary degree...

• Dickens codebreakers recognised at Higher Education ‘Oscars’

  Date: 18 Nov 2022

  /news/2022/november/the-awards-2022

  The Dickens Code project, led by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in collaboration with the University of Foggia, takes home a Times Higher Education...

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ is staging a new exhibition and series of events to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged...

• BBC Book of the Week author set to inspire our English students

  Date: 16 Aug 2022

  /news/2022/august/kit-de-waal-english-leicester

  The author of this week’s BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week will be inspiring students on the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s English course, from September.

• BBC drama novelist residency set to inspire English students

  Date: 9 Jun 2022

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  The novelist behind a new uplifting BBC television drama will be sharing the skills behind her writing with students at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ.