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• Adam Kay, Russell Kane and Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock headline 2024 Literary Leicester festival

  Date: 20 Feb 2024

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  Literary Leicester, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s annual free literature festival, will return next month.

• Medieval prayer guide written by woman to be published for the first time

  Date: 29 Jan 2024

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  Read more about Dr Ben Parson's new book, Two Middle English Prayer Cycles: Holkham Prayers and Meditations and Simon Appulby’s Fruyte of Redempcyon

• Leicester academic sheds new insight on William Wordsworth in new book

  Date: 12 Dec 2023

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  Read more about Professor Philip Shaw's newest book exploring William Wordsworth's relationship with war.

• Dreamt of directing Shakespeare? Well, here’s your chance

  Date: 31 Oct 2023

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  A free community workshop at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ will give people the chance to have a go at directing Shakespeare.

• Punk project supported by Â鶹ÊÓƵ expert nominated for major National Lottery Award

  Date: 19 Sep 2023

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  A Â鶹ÊÓƵ-supported, acclaimed exhibition celebrating the UK’s punk scene has been nominated for a National Lottery Award 2023.

• First witness to the Great Fire of London uncovered by Â鶹ÊÓƵ academic

  Date: 1 Sep 2023

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  Professor Kate Loveman of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ for the Museum of London has identified the first witness of the Great Fire of London.

• Never mind the mohawks: here’s how punk made what we watch and read

  Date: 7 Aug 2023

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Dr Emma Parker hosts talks as part of the Punk Festival Weekender from 18-20 August.

• Rage and Revolution Revisited as a Major Punk Exhibition Hits Leicester This Summer

  Date: 25 May 2023

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  The team behind the successful 2019 Mods: Shaping a Generation exhibition, Soft Touch Arts, Arch Creative and Shaun Knapp, are proud to present...

• Teaching resources cast new light on The Great Fire of London

  Date: 18 May 2023

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  The Â鶹ÊÓƵ and the Museum of London have today launched new learning resources for primary schools about the Great Fire of London...

• 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...