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• Showcasing talent free public event to discuss raising the profile of Leicester and Leicestershires literary scene

  Date: 13 Dec 2017

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  Raising the roof on Leicester’s literary talent will be a subject up for discussion between members of the public and key figures from the city...

• Bestselling author Kate Summerscale to give lecture on Detecting Victorian Crime at Leicester

  Date: 28 Nov 2017

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  Author of the bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale will give the annual Victorian Studies Centre lecture at the University...

• Joe Orton on the BBC

  Date: 23 Nov 2017

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  Material from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ has played a key role in the making of a new documentary on the celebrated Leicester playwright Joe Orton.

• Video interview with street artist released

  Date: 22 Nov 2017

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  A video interview with street artist Stewy, who created artwork in our University Library, has now been released.

• Museum of the Bible opens

  Date: 17 Nov 2017

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  The Museum of the Bible opened today (Friday) in Washington DC.

• Victorian Studies Centre marks 50th anniversary with convivial evening celebrating the works of Charles Dickens

  Date: 15 Nov 2017

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Victorian Studies Centre is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a convivial Dickensian evening on 22 November,...

• Rhyme and ride with Arriva as Leicester gets literary

  Date: 15 Nov 2017

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  Today, Leicester-based poet and performer Lydia Towsey will be hopping on and off local bus services to entertain passengers and raise awareness...

• Crosscultural dialogue around themes of home belonging and refuge at Journeys in Translation event

  Date: 14 Nov 2017

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  On Thursday 23 November, an event hosted by the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (LeCTIS) will explore the unifying aspects of...

• Literary Leicester to host one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British Fiction Gwendoline Riley

  Date: 14 Nov 2017

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ will welcome award-winning novelist Gwendoline Riley to campus on Friday 17 November for the tenth annual Literary...

• Prolific Shakespearean actor Michael Pennington to take part in Literary Leicester

  Date: 9 Nov 2017

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  Eminent stage actor, writer and director Michael Pennington will be delivering a talk and Q&A at our Literary Leicester festival on 16 November.