Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

In GLAM we work with external partners in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums sectors.

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Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums

Our research

In working with partners in the GLAM sector, we are exploring how history is understood and communicated outside the academy.

Our research explores questions like how family historians use their own research to challenge existing understandings of the past, and how museums and heritage sites present sensitive, difficult and controversial stories.

We work with a huge range of external partners locally and globally, including many galleries, archives, museums, and libraries in the city of Leeds, such as Leeds Local and Family History Library and the Thackray Medical Museum.
 

Discover our subject specialists who lead our research - from postgraduate research students to internationally-renowned academic staff.

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Explore our research projects directory to discover past and present research activity.

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In this seminar, three academics will share short "provocations" on the theme on anonymity.

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A workshop with Rachel Bairsto, Head of Museum Services at the British Dental Association

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Part of the page of a medieval manuscript showing the saints days for July and a figure in the margin gathering wheat.

A new day-long training and networking event in digital methods for medievalists.

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The School of History and Leeds Beckett University are proud to co-host the 2025 conference of the Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW).

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