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Staffordshire Archives and Heritage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/06/staffordshire-archives-and-heritage/
Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on December 6, 2021 Previously, we have discussed the collections from Keele University that the UOSH Midlands hub has worked with. These have given us a glimpse into the history of Staffordshire.
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The Cinematic Spectacle that Class War has become
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/03/18/the-cinematic-spectacle-that-class-war-has-become/
Posted by Chris Land in School of Business Blog on March 18, 2015 Our recently appointed Reader in Work and Organisation, Christopher Land , takes it upon himself to dethrone the anti-working class morals symptomatic within films such as, though by no means limited to,...
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The Knowledge ‘versus’ Skills Debate, Part 1: forgetting what we know about knowledge.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/05/24/the-knowledge-versus-skills-debate-part-1-forgetting-what-we-know-about-knowledge/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on May 24, 2018 One of the many poorly-framed, point-missing ‘debates’ that regularly plague contemporary education goes something like this: ‘should education be focused primarily on...
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Christian De Vito
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/author/cdv8/
I am research associate on the Carceral Archipelago project, focusing on convict circulation in the late-colonial and post-colonial Latin America. And I am honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam).
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Gibraltar’s Economic Problems and the UK’s Role in Solving Them
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2013/12/18/gibraltars-economic-problems-and-the-uks-role-in-solving-them/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on December 18, 2013 Dr.
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The destruction of Old St Paul’s
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/01/the-destruction-of-old-st-pauls/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 1, 2016 350 years ago this month, during the early hours of Sunday 2 September 1666, the Great Fire of London, which had broken out in the Pudding Lane bakery of Thomas Farynor, began to spread with...
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Preterm birth linked with lower mathematics abilities and less wealth
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/preterm-birth-linked-with-lower-math-abilities-and-less-wealth
People who are born premature tend to accumulate less wealth as adults, and a new study suggests that this may be due to lower mathematics abilities.
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Lifechanging scholarships announced at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/september/2018life-changing2019-scholarships-announced-at-leicester
The University has announced the names of its 2016 Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholars. These students have been awarded Scholarships by the the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK to allow them to pursue a Master’s course while living in their home countries.
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History of tobacco and our health
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/human-health/tobacco-history
How did tobacco become one of the first truly global commodities, and arguably history’s most deadly habit?
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Minimal surfaces - artists' views
https://le.ac.uk/miv/minimal-surfaces-artists-views
The minimal surfaces artists views was a project in which mathematicians and artists collaborated to show how research can be communicated to a wider audience.