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Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
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Two Students + One Programme = Graduate Job Success
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/careerdevelopmentservice/2015/10/16/leicester-award-gold/
Posted by Marie Muir in Career Development Service on October 16, 2015 Fran and Lucy took part in the Leicester Award Gold when they studied at the University of Leicester, hear why they think you should do it too! Why did you apply for the Leicester Award Gold? Fran – I...
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Outside and beyond: Girl. Boy. Child: a poignant queer tale for our times
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/research/case-studies/girl-boy-child
Museum Studies PhD student Armand De Filippo discusses his research into sensory responses to Medieval manuscripts.
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The Legacy of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/campus-history/legacy-of-leicester
From the discovery of the remains of Richard III to the invention of DNA fingerprinting, browse the extraordinary range of fields to which the University of Leicester has contributed.
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Jupiter's crowning glory
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/jupiter
On 5 July 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered a polar orbit around Jupiter – 13 years after Leicester’s Professor Stan Cowley became attached to the project as Co-Investigator.
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Literature and Decolonisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/en3041
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Literature and Decolonisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/en3041
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Disorder, dissent and disruption
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/disorder-dissent-disruption
A collaboration between RCMG and the Wellcome Collection considering the challenges surrounding the embedding of disruption in permanent galleries.
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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.
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Stop the clocks: Brisk walking may slow biological ageing process, study shows
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/walking-speed-ageing
A new study of genetic data published today (Wednesday) of more than 400,000 UK adults has revealed a clear link between walking pace and a genetic marker of biological age.