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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)

  • University library collections reveal coronation celebrations across time in Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/may/coronation-special-collections

    An insight how coronations have been celebrated in Leicester in years past, courtesy of the University of Leicester Special Collections team.

  • Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 9

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/9/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Zanzibar’s Prison Island: The Prison That Never Was, by Sarah Longair

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2014/10/23/zanzibars-prison-island-the-prison-that-never-was-by-sarah-longair/

    Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 23, 2014 My initial research on peculiar history of Zanzibar’s so-called Prison Island as part of the Carceral Archipelago project began last year delving into the records in the National Archives and the...

  • As China opens the worlds longest glassbottomed bridge researcher highlights how glass was a symbol of power to ancient cultures

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/as-china-opens-the-worlds-longest-glass-bottomed-bridge-researcher-highlights-how-glass-was-a-2018symbol-of-power2019-to-ancient-cultures

    Last weekend, the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge opened to visitors in central China, connecting two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie, Hunan province.

  • Mitigating circumstances

    https://le.ac.uk/policies/regulations/mitigating-circumstances

    Making a mitigating circumstances request You can make a mitigating circumstances request on MyStudentRecord. Once you have logged in, click on the 'My Requests' tab.

  • Research degrees

    https://le.ac.uk/mcb/study/research-degrees

    The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester provides excellent facilities for post-graduate research leading to a PhD. Find out more about our research interests and find a supervisor.

  • Project examining poverty throughout England and Wales in Victorian times awarded over 800000

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/december/joint-project-examining-poverty-throughout-england-and-wales-in-victorian-times-award-over-ps800-000

    The National Archives and our University have been awarded a grant of £820,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to undertake a three year research project examining poverty across England and Wales in Victorian times.

  • Leicester-led study to explore mental health and drug use in colonial and post-colonial prisons

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/leicester-study-mental-health-drug-prisons

    The University of Leicester has been awarded £3.3m to research drugs and mental health in prison settings globally.

  • About

    https://le.ac.uk/joe-orton/about

    Learn more about the Joe Orton: 50 Years On project. Including the partnerships and support we had from other institutions and the events and celebrations surrounding the project.

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