The latest lecture, on Saturday 1st July 2017 at 2:00pm, will be delivered by Dr Elain Harwood, a senior architectural investigator with Historic England, formerly part of English Heritage. Elain’s talk will focus on the post-war expansion of Leicester, which produced new churches and schools of great interest. It will take in other ambitious but unrealised schemes, including the proposals for a civic centre by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon. She will also look at the physical expansion of the University after gaining its independent charter in 1957, when a development plan was produced by Sir Leslie Martin followed by a series of buildings by Britain’s leading modern architects.