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The Plight of the Mandatory Volunteer Worker
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/06/03/the-plight-of-the-mandatory-volunteer-worker/
Posted by Vanessa Beck in School of Business Blog on June 3, 2015 Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck , considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure...
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Penny Bloods on display in the Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/09/penny-bloods-on-display-in-the-library/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 9, 2014 Penny Bloods, popular from the 1840s to the 1860s, were so named because of their preoccupation with the gory and sensational.
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Mapping the Sounds of Leicestershire & Rutland
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/10/26/mapping-the-sounds-of-leicestershire-rutland/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on October 26, 2020 In the summer of 2020, three Museum Studies students at the University of Leicester (Elizabeth Gray, Lillian Namyaalo and Maria Georgiadou) joined the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage team to create a sound...
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Lifting: An Easter Custom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/03/21/lifting-and-heaving-an-easter-custom/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on March 21, 2016 Lifting – an Easter Custom from William Hone, The Every-Day Book (London, 1826), vol. 1, p.
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News and New Normals – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/archiscan/2021/03/22/news-and-new-normals/
This blog post celebrates recent paper presentations and discusses what it has been like for the team to continue scanning during the third national lockdown in England.
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The Aesthetics of Authenticity in the Modern Chain Pub – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/02/13/the-aesthetics-of-authenticity-in-the-modern-chain-pub/
Discussion of a book chapter about the "Pub Authenticity-Value Aesthetic" in relation to the JD Wetherspoon pub chain, recently published in an edited volume Biographies of Drink (CSP, 2015)
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Scottish Independence is too important to be left to the Politicians
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/08/20/scottish-independence-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-politicians/
Posted by Thomas Swann in School of Business Blog on August 20, 2014 Thomas Swann, Graduate Teaching Assistant at the School and the recent recipient of a Times Higher Education Best Essay Prize , encourages us to pay more attention to the Grassroots of the movement toward...
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BBC Radio Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/15/bbc-radio-leicester/
A page describing the BBC Radio Leicester collections that were preserved by the UOSH Midlands team.
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Internationalisation and Teaching International Students
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2017/02/03/internationalisation-and-teaching-international-students/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on February 3, 2017 On Wednesday 1st February, I had the pleasure of co-running, with Dan Jones from the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) , an LLI-hosted session on Teaching...
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SAPPHIRE Spotlight: Damian Roland University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/10/29/damian-roland/
Dr Damian Roland, Consultant at the University of Leicester NHS Trust, talks about his award-winning work on the #FOAMed hashtag and the value of using social media in medical education.