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Death’s Doings
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/09/24/deaths-doings/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 24, 2015 In spite of all the Hypochondriac’s attempts to keep sickness at bay, Death comes whizzing down the chimney in the form of a skeletal spider. The Hypochondriac’s cat remains unmoved.
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Rest in Pieces: The story of a hanged woman and her journey to becoming a museum object. By Ali Well
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2016/07/27/rest-in-pieces/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on July 27, 2016 When referring to “skeletons in the cupboard” we rarely expect these to be literally true, but in the case of Mary Ann Higgins and the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, it is.
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Quizzes in Reflect recordings
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/lli/2018/11/13/quizzes-in-reflect-recordings/
Posted by mmobbs in Leicester Learning Institute: Enhancing learning and teaching on November 13, 2018 Did you know you that you can add quizzes to your Reflect recordings? This feature can add a level of interactivity to recordings and presents a number of learning and...
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Cartooning in South Africa: Jonathan Zapiro on the Post-Apartheid ‘Rainbow Nation’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/2022/01/11/cartooning-south-africa-jonathan-zapiro-post-apartheid-rainbow-nation/
Political cartoonist Jonathan Zapiro (South Africa) is interviewed by Shout Out UK Young Writer Laura Brick.
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Lee Anderson’s Islamophobia 101: how the Conservatives dodge responsibility for the prejudice that i
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/criminology/2024/03/07/lee-andersons-islamophobia-101-how-the-conservatives-dodge-responsibility-for-the-prejudice-that-is-rife-in-their-ranks/
Posted by ca270 in Soundings: criminology and sociology at the University of Leicester on March 7, 2024 Chris Allen – Associate Professor This article was first published at The Conversation. To read, click here .
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The Business of Bikes, and Cycling for England
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/09/11/the-business-of-bikes-and-cycling-for-england/
Posted by csmith in School of Business Blog on September 11, 2017 Charlotte Smith, a lecturer at ULSB and world class cyclist, discusses the tensions between amateurism and commercialism in the world of international cycling.
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Research skills training – Spring 2025
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/01/17/research-skills-training-spring-2025/
Advertising the new training program for research students at the University of Leicester in Spring 2025.
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A Price worth Paying? Short Term Economic Recovery and the Loss of a Generation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/02/05/a-price-worth-paying-short-term-economic-recovery-and-the-loss-of-a-generation/
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014 Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be...
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Unrequited Love: The Enduring Pain of Convictism in Western Australia
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/05/22/unrequited-love-the-enduring-pain-of-convictism-in-western-australia/
Posted by abarker in Carceral Archipelago on May 22, 2017 By Kellie Moss The sentence of transportation signified the physical removal, or banishment of convicts, from the wider social body to colonies overseas.
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The Criminal Corpse and the Competing Claims of Justice and Anatomy. By Richard Ward
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/crimcorpse/2015/12/21/richard-ward-the-criminal-corpse-and-the-competing-claims-of-justice-and-anatomy/
Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in The Power of the Criminal Corpse on December 21, 2015 The later eighteenth century represents a particular moment when the competing claims of anatomy and criminal justice fought for supremacy over the criminal corpse.