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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Meet the team

    https://le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/new-approaches-to-the-material-world/arch-i-scan/meet-the-team

    Professor Penelope Allison Principal Investigator pma9@le.ac.uk Professor Ivan Tyukin Co-Investigator ivan.tyukin@kcl.ac.uk Professor Alexander Gorban Co-Investigator ag153@le.ac.uk Dr Evgeny Mirkes Co-Investigator em322@le.ac.

  • Largest archaeological excavation in Leicester in over a decade open to public

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/largest-archaeological-excavation-in-leicester-in-over-a-decade-open-to-public

    Members of the public are invited to learn more about Leicester's Roman past as the city's largest excavation site in over 10 years is open to visitors on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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