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Excitement builds for "bigger and better than ever" Leicestershire Festival of Archaeology
This year's festival in Leicestershire launches on Saturday ahead of more than 110 events in two weeks of discovery.
Medieval Leicester Night at the Jewry Wall Museum
Take a step back in time to experience a medieval evening at the Jewry Wall Museum for Museums at Night 2010.
New gallery at Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre reveals secrets behind Tudor scrap
Finds and secrets from the survey which pinpointed the 15th century Battle of Bosworth go on show in Leicestershire today.
Sweet solution saves Medieval Leicester bridge at Snibston Discovery Museum
Scientists have unveiled part of an 11th century bridge linking London with the North after immersing sections of the Medieval structure in 70 tons of liquid sugar.
Archaeologists say Leicestershire silver gem is Britain's oldest Roman coin
A silver coin found in a vast hoard at Hallaton in Leicestershire in 2002 has been declared the oldest Roman coin ever found in Britain and put on display in a special gallery at Harborough Museum.
Six-strong shortlist for Leicester City Gallery's Attenborough Prize
One of six artists will take the contemporary crown in the Midlands when Leicester City Gallery announces the winner of the annual £2,000 Attenborough Prize today (November 12 2009).
Archaeologists discover Stone Age weapons factory in Leicestershire
University of Leicester archaeologists have discovered a Mesolithic Stone Age weapons factory on a building site near Melton in Leicestershire.
Leicester Museums gifted "outstanding" Brooks collection of German Expressionist art
Leicester Arts and Museums Service has been gifted an outstanding collection of early 20th century German Expressionist artworks by locally-born businessman Michael Brooks.
Face to Face with contemporary portraiture at The Richard Attenborough Centre
Disparate work by five artists is collated in Face to Face, a collection of portraits at The Richard Attenborough Centre in Leicester.
Sugar rush embroils Leicester City Gallery in treacle art by Philomena Francis
Jamaican artist Philomena Francis uses molasses to explore the slave trade and black female identity in contemporary society in her show at The City Gallery in Leicester.
Space Race comes alive in multilayered summer display at Leicester's National Space Centre
USSR or the USA? Head to the National Space Centre to decide who won the most important battle of the Cold War.
Ziggy Stardust and Star Wars tour with Space Age: Exploration, Design and Popular Culture
Space cadets in South Shields and Leicester are in for a treat with the Victoria and Albert's cosmic travelling extravaganza.
Boar badge pinpoints Richard III death at Battle of Bosworth site
Archaeologists believe a tiny badge bearing the boar emblem of Richard III and a scattering of shot found in the Leicestershire field where the Battle of Bosworth took place have allowed them to......
Darwin celebrated across UK as 150th anniversary of Origin of Species arrives
On the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, Culture24 takes a look at some of the best shows in the UK to find out more about Charles Darwin's life and times.
Leicester's role in Russian satellite programme revealed as UK's largest telescope goes to Science Museum
A vast telescope built by scientists in Leicester for a scuppered Soviet satellite which informed current NASA surveillance will go on display at the Science Museum in London.
