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Jean Humphreys (1924-2019)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2019/jean-humphreys
It is with great sadness we have learned of the death of a much-loved and dedicated friend of the University, Mrs Jean Humphreys.
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Leicester medieval historian elected as Fellow of the British Academy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/joanna-story-british-academy-fellow-leicester
The University of Leicester's Professor Joanna Story has been elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy as a UK Fellow.
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Locating Art
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/mu7002
Module code: MU7002 Locating Art examines the relationship between art, agency and social change across diverse locations and contexts including art museums; indigenous and rural art spaces; biennials; contemporary art centres, and the digital world.
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Doing Historical Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/ar7530
Module code: AR7530 This module explores archaeological issues related to later historical archaeology, and will allow you to develop skills in the interpretation of material culture – not only excavated sites, but also material in museums, standing structures and historical...
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Locating Art
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/mu7002
Module code: MU7002 Locating Art examines the relationship between art, agency and social change across diverse locations and contexts including art museums; indigenous and rural art spaces; biennials; contemporary art centres, and the digital world.
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Doing Historical Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/ar7530
Module code: AR7530 This module explores archaeological issues related to later historical archaeology, and will allow you to develop skills in the interpretation of material culture – not only excavated sites, but also material in museums, standing structures and historical...
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Locating Art
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mu7002
Module code: MU7002 Locating Art examines the relationship between art, agency and social change across diverse locations and contexts including art museums; indigenous and rural art spaces; biennials; contemporary art centres, and the digital world.
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Doing Historical Archaeology
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/ar7530
Module code: AR7530 This module explores archaeological issues related to later historical archaeology, and will allow you to develop skills in the interpretation of material culture – not only excavated sites, but also material in museums, standing structures and historical...
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Space Park Leicester developing technology for ultra-clean mini-lab to potentially contain extra-terrestrial samples returned to Earth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/space-park-leicester-technology-ultra-clean-mini-lab-extra-terrestrial-samples
University of Leicester’s science and innovation park to lead on a European Space Agency project to build a Double-Walled Isolator (DWI) to support analysis of extra-terrestrial samples, to reduce the risk of cross contamination on Earth
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The Dickens Code: Enduring mystery of Dickens shorthand letter solved with crowd-sourced research
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/dickens-code-tavistock-letter
The idea that the Tavistock letter was an appeal by Dickens to someone to intervene over a rejected, but legal, advertisement took the researchers back to New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, which holds a manuscript of a letter to Dickens dated 9 May 1859 from Mowbray...