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• Leicester academic explores unanswered questions about Easter

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/april/leicester-academic-explores-unanswered-questions-about-easter

  Dr Philip Shaw, from the University of Leicester, will explore the pagan origins of Easter in a free public event on 6 April.

• Health Sciences research on inequality and obesity to be presented at prestigious lecture

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/health-sciences-research-on-inequality-and-obesity-to-be-presented-at-prestigious-lecture

  A researcher from Leicester has been recognised for his excellent communication skills and efforts to share his work with the general public. The British Science Association (BSA) has announced the winners of its prestigious Award Lectures for 2018.

• Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/04/research-data-journal-for-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2015 A new free open access journal from Brill and a number of research institutes based in the Netherlands seeks to highlight research based on data.

• Hanif Kureishi: the Assemblage of a Native Informant

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2015/03/06/hanif-kureishi-the-assemblage-of-a-native-informant/

  Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on March 6, 2015 There are few writers alive in Britain today who can elicit such polarised, or at best highly qualified, responses as Hanif Kureishi (except, perhaps, his fellow writer and friend Salman Rushdie).

• Anarchism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/20/anarchism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 20, 2015 An interesting blog which is providing free full text materials is irishanarchisthistory .

• Evelyn Waugh: Reader, Writer, Collector

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2017/05/29/evelyn-waugh-reader-writer-collector/

  An idiosyncratic reflection by Robert Murray Davis on a Waugh symposium held at the Huntington, Pasadena, over 5-6 May 2017.

• Cider, the golden global glug.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/10/07/cider-the-golden-global-glug/

  Posted by in Consuming Authenticities on October 7, 2015 Ethnographic research with craft cider-makers suggests that part of the authenticity of a craft cider derives from its staying true to the traditions of cider, as opposed to a “commercial cider”, a category often used...

• Leicester student in world Wheelchair Rugby Challenge

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/october/leicester-student-in-world-wheelchair-rugby-challenge

  A Leicester doctoral student has described the ‘great experience’ of taking part in the inaugural BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge.

• Regional and local history

  https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/english-local-history

  Since local boot and shoe manufacturer Thomas Hatton donated his collection of books on antiquarianism at our foundation, the University of Leicester Library has been collecting material on regional and local history.

• Waugh Geography quiz

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/04/04/geographyquiz/

  A geography quiz based on the novles of Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1986