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14153 results for: ‘museum studies’

• Archaeologists identify ingredients for food served during Richard IIIs reign

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/archaeologists-identify-ingredients-for-medieval-dishes-served-during-richard-iii2019s-reign

  Archaeologists from the University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have lent their expertise towards a series of medieval recipes designed to provide insight into the culinary dishes that may have been served up during the reign of King Richard III.

• University contributes rare manuscript to major Sikh exhibition

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/march/university-contributes-rare-manuscript-to-major-sikh-exhibition

  Our University is contributing a rare Sikh manuscript to a major exhibition showcasing unseen relics and artefacts from the 19th Century Anglo Sikh Wars.

• Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948

  https://le.ac.uk/research/projects/jewish-dress-migration-belonging

  External partners and collaborators|Dress expresses intimate feelings of belonging and identity. A focus on dress is especially rewarding when looking at migrant societies in which people from diverse backgrounds have often different ideas of how one should dress and why.

• Designing for Creative Lives

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mu7006

  Module code: MU7006 Designing for Creative Lives addresses how museum-making can bring together the social and the spatial to drive inclusive organisational transformation and open new possibilities for publics, communities, museum workers and wider social change.

• Designing for Creative Lives

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mu7006

  Module code: MU7006 Designing for Creative Lives addresses how museum-making can bring together the social and the spatial to drive inclusive organisational transformation and open new possibilities for publics, communities, museum workers and wider social change.

• Designing for Creative Lives

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mu7006

  Module code: MU7006 Designing for Creative Lives addresses how museum-making can bring together the social and the spatial to drive inclusive organisational transformation and open new possibilities for publics, communities, museum workers and wider social change.

• New study to explore how personalised drug doses could improve quality of life for people with secondary breast cancer

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/breast-cancer-drug-doses-leicester

  A new study by a Leicester researcher will explore how people with incurable secondary (or metastatic) breast cancer experience treatment side effects, and whether personalised drug doses could help improve their quality of life

• New launch date for satellite carrying Leicester-built telescope studying Earth’s ‘magnetic shield’

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2026/may/launch-satellite-telescope-earth-magnetic-shield

  Scientists at Space Park Leicester led development of the Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE), due to launch from French Guiana on Tuesday 19 May

• Contested Desires Constructive Dialogues

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/contested-desires-constructive-dialogues

  Contested Desires: Constructive Dialogues (CDCD) is a three-year arts and heritage programme, co-funded by the EU Creative Europe, engaging artists to examine European colonialism’s legacy in museums and heritage sites.

• Unique Iron Age shield found by Leicester archaeologists

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/may/23-enderby-iron-age-bark-shield

  A unique bark shield from the Iron Age has been discovered by archaeologists from the University of Leicester, the only one of its kind ever found in Europe.