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  • Reviewer guidelines

    https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museum-society/reviewer-guidelines

    Museum and Society is an interdisciplinary journal with a wide-ranging interest in issues associated with museums and other places of public culture concerned with collecting, exhibiting and display.

  • The Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies

    https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/lias

    The Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) is an interdisciplinary centre of excellence.

  • MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript, leather slipcase

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-7/

    2. MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript, leather slipcase with typed labels

  • University of Leicester building officially reopened as Kathleen Kenyon Building

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/march/kathleen-kenyon-building-naming-ceremony

    The University of Leicester's home for the School of Archaeology and Ancient History and the School of Museum Studies has been named after Dame Kathleen Kenyon.

  • Research degrees

    https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/research-degrees

    Study with us and you will become part of an internationally-renowned research community. Find out more about PhDs in Museum Studies at Leicester.

  • Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

    https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton

    The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and genocide studies was founded in 1990 and its mission is to conduct research into the Holocaust and related issues.

  • Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016   When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.

  • Parchment used in immersive experience

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-3/

    10. A full-size piece of vellum (calf-skin) suspended on a frame and prepared ready for writing on. The pattern of the animal's spine can still be seen running along the central length of the vellum.

  • MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav/

    5. MS 210, Ethiopic manuscript. The blank final page seems to have been used by the owner of the manuscript to record his or her own illustrated interpretation.

  • Contents of display case draw

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-4/

    9. Scrapers like this were used to remove hair and fat from the animal skin used to make parchment. The scents of Frankincense, Myrrh and Lubanja are sometimes retained within the folios of a manuscript and can still be smelt if we are lucky enough to get close enough.

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