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• Queer Heritage and Collections Network awarded Arts Council England and National Lottery Project Funding

  Date: 1 Feb 2024

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  Read more about the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries' latest project on queer heritage

• Leicester welcomes its world-changing Future 50 researchers

  Date: 5 Dec 2023

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  The next generation of world-changing researchers was given a warm welcome by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ this week.

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Birmingham Museums Trust join forces to tackle museum attendance and benefit

  Date: 26 Oct 2023

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  The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) will host a series of public workshops to address the museum attendance and benefit gap.

• Two Â鶹ÊÓƵ projects shortlisted for Museum and Heritage Awards 2023

  Date: 17 Mar 2023

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  Two projects from Â鶹ÊÓƵ's School of Museum Studies have been shortlisted for the prestigious Museum and Heritage Awards.

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ appoints Science Museum Principal Curator for key leadership post

  Date: 3 Oct 2022

  /news/2022/october/tilly-blyth

  The Science Museum’s Head of Collections and Principal Curator will join the Â鶹ÊÓƵ as its new Head of the School of Museum Studies.

• Leicester to showcase humanities research at 2021 Being Human festival

  Date: 11 Oct 2021

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  Â鶹ÊÓƵ experts from disciplines as diverse as English literature, archaeology and criminology – and a whole lot more – have...

• National award for Queer Heritage and Collections Network

  Date: 2 Jul 2021

  /news/2021/july/queer-heritage

  A partnership supporting museums and heritage bodies to reveal and publicly present LGBTQ+ histories – of which the Â鶹ÊÓƵ is a...

• New theory claims pterodactyls did not have feathers

  Date: 28 Sep 2020

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  The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ refuting claims that...

• Discovery reveals remains of first aquatic dinosaur 'river-monster'

  Date: 28 Apr 2020

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  An historic discovery of fossils by an international team, including Dr David Unwin at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has revealed the remains of...

• Public lecture on Myanmar and museums

  Date: 6 Feb 2020

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  The effect of displacement in Myanmar on material objects is the subject of a public lecture at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ on Tuesday 18 February.