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Tequila: Pulque’s Friend, Cousin, Usurper?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/09/01/tequila-pulques-friend-cousin-usurper/
Deborah Toner discusses the relationship and rivalry between pulque and tequila in Mexican history, and summarises a recently published book by Marie Sarita Gaytan, Tequila: Distilling the Spirit of Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2014)
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Introducing students to what lectures are for (and not for)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2019/09/18/introducing-students-to-what-lectures-are-for-and-not-for/
Posted by Steve Rooney in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on September 18, 2019 This is a draft preview version of a resource currently in production.
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Drifting into Heritage: R. M. Francis’ Week 1 of David Bradshaw Creative Writing Residency, 2019
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2019/04/29/drifting-into-heritage-r-m-francis-week-1-of-david-bradshaw-creative-writing-residency-2019/
Posted by in Waugh and Words on April 29, 2019 Dr Robert M. Francis reflects on the impact place has upon the self and his first week in Oxford as a full – time David Bradshaw Creative Writer in Residence, 2019. Dr Robert M.
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Leicester’s global and colonial history explored through a basketry collection
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/september/dryad-baskets
An exhibition showcasing the basket collection of Leicester entrepreneur Harry Peach has gone on display at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery
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Get creative this summer with Attenborough Arts Centre’s new programme
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/april/aac
A range of inspiring performances, exhibitions and courses feature in Leicester’s Attenborough Arts Centre’s new summer programme, which invites you to get creative.
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Women's Writing in the Midlands, 1750-1850
https://le.ac.uk/new-writing/commissions/womens-writing-midlands
This commissioned piece from the Centre for New Writing focusses on the lives and writing of the abolitionist women in the Midlands during the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.
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Thrown to the Lions? New evidence revealed for the use of lions during executions in Roman Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/roman-lion-handle
Dr John Pearce, from King’s College London, is a co-author of the study. He added: “This unique object gives us our most detailed representation of this form of execution found in Roman Britain.
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NHS COVID patient recovery website launched
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/july/your-covid-recovery
A new project to help rehabilitate thousands of patients across the UK who are recovering from COVID-19 has been launched by NHS England in collaboration with NHS Improvement, the University of Leicester, and the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL).
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Leicester medieval historian elected as Fellow of the British Academy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/joanna-story-british-academy-fellow-leicester
The University of Leicester's Professor Joanna Story has been elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy as a UK Fellow.