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• Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life

  Date: 13 Aug 2021

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  A multi-media exhibition led by a team of academics at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has launched at the Wordsworth Museum – one of the Lake...

• Student competition brings Leicester playwright’s alter ego to life

  Date: 19 May 2021

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  A popular creative writing competition launched by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is once again open for entries – this year supported by the...

• Booker Prize-winner to join Literary Leicester Festival

  Date: 5 Mar 2021

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  Booker Prize-winner Marlon James will be headlining the revival of the Literary Leicester Festival.

• Demand for free colonial history lessons spikes

  Date: 10 Jun 2020

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  Free home schooling packs about Britain’s colonial past have seen a surge in popularity.

• Cricket Country shortlisted for prestigious non-fiction prize

  Date: 3 May 2020

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  A book by a Leicester academic exploring the untold history of the first All India cricket team has been shortlisted as one of six entries for the...

• 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.