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The History of Alcohol in North America, 1650-1950
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/hs2359
Module code: HS2359 This module surveys the social and cultural history of drinking in modern American society, and considers how the historical and cross-cultural study of drinking can add to contemporary debates surrounding alcohol consumption.
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Museums as sanctuaries from hate?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2016/11/02/257/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on November 2, 2016 This morning I saw the front page of the Daily Mail (I’m not going to link to it. Google it if you must) as I walked past a news stand and it made me angry. Nothing new about that.
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Ethnography Symposium
https://le.ac.uk/school-of-business/research/research-events/ethnography-symposium
18th Annual Ethnography Symposium (online only), Living with failure all around: hope in the midst of despair? 27 — 29 August 2025 All around us, we find failure. Most immediately, higher education is in crisis.
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Learning about history from food utensils
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/september/learning-about-history-from-food-utensils
What do dinner utensils say about Roman social interactions? Archaeologists and Big Data experts will be gathering at the University for a series of workshops between 26-27 September at College Court Conference Centre to provide some answers to that question.
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Tea coffee and a slice of midlife
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/tea-coffee-and-a-slice-of-mid-life
Leicester is the first university in the UK with a workplace menopause policy - and now we're launching the region’s first Menopause Café.
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Universities and colleges join forces to help Leicestershire’s young people decide their futures
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/pathways-universities-join-forces
A partnership of universities and colleges working to raise aspirations in the region’s young people has engaged over 4800 from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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The Importance of Authenticity – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/01/05/the-importance-of-authenticity/
Discusses the concept of authenticity in relation to food and alcohol studies scholarship; the role of time, history, the past and temporal categories in analysing authenticity in relation to food and drink
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Genetics PhD students photograph wins University competition
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/genetics-phd-students-photograph-wins-university-competition
Shane Hussey, a PhD student in the Department of Genetics, has won the Graduate School’s second PhDepictions photography competition. The runner-up prize went to Joe Emmings of the Department of Geology.
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University of Leicester presents at Gateway to China event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/november/university-of-leicester-presents-at-gateway-to-china-event
Our University has played a key role in the “Gateway to China” a one-day event that was part of the last edition of the Leicester Business Festival.
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New poll reveals 8 out of 10 students rate university ‘learning experience’ as most important
https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/post-covid-survey
New research commissioned by the University of Leicester has revealed how post-COVID, ‘learning experience’ matters most to students (82%), followed by ‘gaining independence’ (78%), green open spaces (78%), and mental health and wellbeing (64%).