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• Cabinet of Curiosities: how disability was kept in a box

  https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/cabinet-of-curiosities

  A unique performance that challenges the way we think about disability.

• The Story of Pulque Part 3: Ritual and Power in Aztec Mexico – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/07/03/the-story-of-pulque-part-3-ritual-and-power-in-aztec-mexico/

  Project Principal Investigator Deborah Toner describes the importance of pulque in cultural, religious and political terms during the Aztec period in Mexico. Third part of the story of pulque

• Reinventing the Past: The French Historical Novel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/fr3045

  Module code: FR3045 In this module, you will analyse the history of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical novel as a genre and its evolution in relation to political contexts, to historiographical practices, and to literary aesthetic currents.  

• Publications

  https://le.ac.uk/english-local-history/research/publications

  Learn more about the publications produced by the academics and students in the Centre for English Local History.

• The Dreadful Burning of the City of London

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/09/08/the-dreadful-burning-of-the-city-of-london/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 8, 2016 The atmosphere of London in 1666, before, as well as after, the outbreak of the Great Fire, was febrile – anti-Catholic feeling was potent and rife, portents and prophecies of terrible events...

• Diplomatic History: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1945

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/am2015

  Module code: AM2015

• France: race, class and revolt

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/07/18/france-race-class-and-revolt/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2023 France: Race, Class, and Revolt A guide which aims to provide an introduction to key academic books, articles and films covering the complex histories and current issues of race and...

• Glynis returns to serve the University of Leicester 40 years after graduation

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/glynis-wright

  A successful business leader has returned to the University of Leicester after 40 years to help steer the institution’s future direction.

• State of Global Peace 2020

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/03/state-of-global-peace-2020/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 3, 2020 The Institute of Economics and Peace has just released its latest annual report ranking nations and regions in terms of peacefulness.

• Research

  https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/research

  Explore our research in Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester. The research work of the Department has contributed to major advances in the treatment of coronary heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, hypertension and stroke.