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• Ukrainian students find sanctuary at �鶹��Ƶ

  Date: 7 Mar 2023

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

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

  Date: 7 Mar 2023

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

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

  Date: 1 Mar 2023

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

• �鶹��Ƶ launches exhibition celebrating 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

  Date: 15 Feb 2023

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

• �鶹��Ƶ bestows honour on English student-turned-inspiring-author

  Date: 20 Jan 2023

  /news/2023/january/jeffrey-boakye

  A �鶹��Ƶ 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

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

• �鶹��Ƶ celebrates 40th anniversary of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 ¾ 

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

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  �鶹��Ƶ 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

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  The author of this week’s BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week will be inspiring students on the �鶹��Ƶ’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 �鶹��Ƶ.

• Best-selling crime author visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”!

  Date: 29 Apr 2022

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  Best-selling crime author Val McDermid visits Leicester to discuss “killing for fun and profit”