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• Museum Studies sets stage for global dialogue

  Date: 19 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/museum-studies-sets-stage-for-global-dialogue

  The School of Museum Studies is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an event that examines the changing role of museums.

• Cyber threat to Trident warning from Leicester expert

  Date: 15 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/cyber-threat-to-trident-warning-from-leicester-expert

  A Leicester expert on nuclear proliferation has briefed a group of senior politicians in Parliament on the cyber threat to Trident.

• Striking skull portraits of King Richard III produced using X-rays

  Date: 13 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/striking-skull-portraits-of-king-richard-iii-produced-using-x-rays

  Dramatic new artwork of King Richard III inspired by the discovery by Leicester archaeologists is to go on display at the Andipa Gallery in London...

• Leicester historian takes Hairy Bikers through Yorkshires past pubs

  Date: 13 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/leicester-historian-takes-hairy-bikers-through-yorkshire2019s-past-pubs

  A new BBC series following the popular Hairy Bikers on a tour of historic British pubs features a historian from our University in its opening...

• Portrayal of Richard III captures spirit of the last Plantagenet

  Date: 8 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/portrayal-of-richard-iii-captures-spirit-of-the-last-plantagenet

  A college in Hawaii is holding a performance of Shakespeare’s Richard III which takes account of the discovery of the King’s remains in a unique...

• Expert opinions cover asylum laws Evelyn Waugh EU students digital activism cancer and broadcasting inequality

  Date: 8 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-asylum-laws-evelyn-waugh-and-eu-students

  President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Boyle has written an article for the Leicester Mercury on how membership of the EU is good for...

• Expert opinions cover football the Bemba conviction and Obamas visit to Cuba

  Date: 1 Apr 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/expert-opinions-cover-football-the-bemba-conviction-and-obamas-visit-to-cuba

  John Williams from the Department of Sociology has written three opinion pieces recently hosted on Think: Leicester.

• Richard III mosaic unveiled at visitor centre

  Date: 31 Mar 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/richard-iii-mosaic-unveiled-at-vistor-centre

  The King Richard III Visitor Centre unveiled a huge photo-mosaic portrait of the King to coincide with the one year anniversary of the reinterment...

• Richard III team share memories of reinterment week

  Date: 24 Mar 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/richard-iii-reunion

  Dr Turi King, of the University's Department of Genetics and Mathew Morris of University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), have joined...

• Unruly bodies and minds in the medical museum

  Date: 24 Mar 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/march/unruly-bodies-and-minds-in-the-medical-museum

  Following Mat Fraser’s astonishing and award-winning commission Cabinet of Curiosities that toured UK museums in 2015, Exceptional & Extraordinary...