High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust studies is a teaching and research centre located within the school of Historical studies at the University of Leicester.The centre was founded by Professor Aubrey Newman in 1990 and was renamed the Stanley Burton Centre in 1993. It operates a student run Holocaust resource room which is currently undergoing a period of expansion; and organises an annual conference on the Holocaust, attracting high profile Holocaust historians to the university. Recent Speakers have included Deborah Lipstadt of Emory University, Richard Overy of Exeter University and Sir Martin Gilbert formerly of Merton College, Oxford.