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Mavis Guzelian (née Altounyan), the inspiration for Titty, on the lap of a nanny while boating on Coniston Lake in the early 1920s with her older sisters Taqui (l) and Susie and their maternal aunt Barbara. © Guzelian Ltd

Swallows and Armenians – reappraising a children’s classic

Published
8 March 2019
Categories
Arts & Culture

John, Susan, Titty, Roger. The fictional Walker children are much-loved characters in Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons – a quintessentially English family in an archetypal children’s classic.

A bronze mask from The Bowes Museum

SOLD! The antiques trade gets its first museum exhibition

Published
22 January 2019
Categories
Business & Economy
Arts & Culture

A new exhibition taking visitors on a journey through the history of antique dealing, curated by a Leeds academic, opens this week at The Bowes Museum, County Durham.

Some of the judges for the University of Leeds' new Brotherton Poetry Prize: from left, Simon Armitage, Vahni Capildeo, John Whale and Malika Booker

Poetry prize aims to nurture new talent

Published
28 November 2018
Categories
Arts & Culture

A new poetry prize aimed at nurturing previously unpublished poets is launched today by the University.

Picture by Anthony Harvey

Light Night 2018 on campus

Published
28 September 2018
Categories
University
Arts & Culture

The University is playing a key part in next week's city-wide Light Night celebrations, with events ranging from live coding to a marvellous mushroom adventure.

Lang Lang, Global Ambassador of the Leeds International Piano Competition receiving his honorary Doctor of Music degree from University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor Alan Langlands at the finals of the competition on Saturday 15 September.

And the Leeds International Piano Competition winner is…

Published
16 September 2018
Categories
Global
Arts & Culture

Eric Lu, 20, from the US, has been awarded first place at the Leeds International Piano Competition, widely regarded as among the most coveted prizes in the musical world.

Students in the School of Design at the University of Leeds

Nurturing the next generation of skilled researchers

Published
15 August 2018
Categories
University
Arts & Culture

The Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield have been awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to support more than 250 PhD researchers.