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Decolonising the Curriculum: How is black history taught in schools?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/11/29/decolonising-the-curriculum-how-is-black-history-taught-in-schools/
Posted by apatel in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 29, 2018 Angelina Osborne, on BBC Woman’s hour discussing Olive Morris and her legacy as a black activist. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNInrtwW4AAas0q.
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Invisible Hands, and the Market as Storytelling
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/10/23/invisible-hands-and-the-market-as-storytelling/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on October 23, 2017 Valerie Hamilton, co-author of Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England with Martin Parker from ULSB muses on the way in which Adam Smith and subsequent economists have used the famous metaphor of an...
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The Story of Pulque, Part 1
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/10/the-story-of-pulque-part-1/
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on March 10, 2015 In the 17th century, the Mexican historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl recorded a pre-Columbian legend about the origins of pulque.
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Queering Islam: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/
Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester
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Derby Local Studies Library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2021/12/15/derby-local-studies-library/
A page that describes the collections from Derby Local Studies Library that the UOSH Midlands Hub preserved.
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Hot hot hot, above the Great Red Spot
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/28/hot-hot-hot-above-the-great-red-spot/
Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 28, 2016 One of the largest remaining questions in understanding the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the outmost layer of the atmosphere, is: ‘Why is this region so very hot?’.
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Support for students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD)
https://le.ac.uk/accessability/support/spld-support
Support for students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD) at University of Leicester
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Lateral flow test booking privacy notice
https://le.ac.uk/policies/privacy/health/lateral-flow-booking
Learn more about the way the University handles your data when booking a lateral flow test.
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Dont try this at home How to make fireworks 17thcentury style
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/dont-try-this-at-home-how-to-make-fireworks-17th-century-style
With Guy Fawkes night (5 November) and Diwali (11 November) on the horizon, the skies of Leicester will be lit up over the next few weeks by firework displays - and a rare book held within the University's Library sheds light on how 17th century fireworks were made.
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Students calculate how much of the Amazon would be required to print the Internet
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/april/students-calculate-how-much-of-the-amazon-would-be-required-to-print-the-internet
Students from the The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science have calculated how much paper would be required to physically print the Internet as we know it - and have worked out that despite the Internet’s enormous size less than 1 per cent of the Amazon rainforest’s...