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• The secret behind Scrooge? Research studies Dickens’ coded letters

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/dickens-code

  Charles Dickens’s festive favourite A Christmas Carol is a staple of the holiday season. But now Leicester literary experts are part of an international team looking to uncover the secrets of the author’s coded manuscripts.

• Project exploring Stonehenge’s elusive relationship with the Moon nominated for Museums + Heritage Award

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/stonehenge-moon-museums-heritage-awards

  A project exploring Stonehenge’s little-known relationship with the Moon has been nominated for a Museums + Heritage Award.

• Opportunity to touch smell and taste a deconstructed medieval manuscript

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/opportunity-to-touch-smell-and-taste-a-2018deconstructed2019-medieval-manuscript

  A unique opportunity to experience a medieval manuscript as a sensory experience will be taking place at the University.

• Completed PHDs 1983-1999

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/research-degrees/completed-phd/1983-1999

  1998 Alexandra Bounia - The nature of collecting in the Classical world: Collections and collectors, c.100 BCE - 100 CE.

• Vulnerability: A Research Method for Literary and Cultural Studies

  https://le.ac.uk/vulnerability-studies/vulnerable-reading

  This AHRC-funded project maps a body of contemporary literary and cultural responses to cross-border vulnerabilities in North America, focusing on intersecting crises of gender and race-based vulnerability, such as femicide and violence against Indigenous people.

• Showcasing Leicester

  https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/showcasing-leicester

  SHOWCASING LEICESTER’S CULTURAL HERITAGE Highfields Community Centre ‘Highfields, the last 50 years!’

• Making a box for the Grant of Arms

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/08/06/caring-for-our-special-collections/grantofarms4/

  Apertures are cut for the seals. Image: Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.

• First World War memorial tablet, located at entrance to Fielding Johnson Building, University of Lei

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/fjbmemorialplaqueweb/

  First World War memorial tablet, located at entrance to Fielding Johnson Building, University of Leicester

• ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Garth Smithies Taylor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/g-s-taylorweb/

  ULA/HIS/FOU/2, Memorial Portraits Book, Photograph of Garth Smithies Taylor

• Record of donation by Dr F. W. Bennett in memory of Garth Taylor (ULA P/AR1)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/10/14/garth-smithies-taylor-1896-1916/fwbennetdonaation/

  Record of donation by Dr F. W. Bennett in memory of Garth Taylor (ULA P/AR1)