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Deborah Toner
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/author/deborah_toner/
I'm a Lecturer in Modern History, with particular interests in the social and cultural history of alcohol in Mexico and the Americas.
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Richard Float
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024/richard-float
We have learned, with great sadness, of the death of Richard Float, who worked in the Estates Division for more than thirty years, as Assistant Bursar and then Bursar. Richard passed away on 7 October 2024, aged 91.
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10th November 2017 Sol 1871 – Scottish Quadrangle on Mars
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/mars/2017/11/10/10th-november-2017-sol-1871-scottish-quadrangle-on-mars/
Posted by jbridges in Mars Science Laboratory Blog on November 10, 2017 The field area for Curiosity along its traverse (currently nearly 18 km) is divided into a series of map qaudrangles. Each of these has outcrop and feature names based on a region of Earth e.g.
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Materials Chemist Awarded Prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship
https://le.ac.uk/sustainable-materials-processing/news/materials-chemist-awarded-prestigious-marie-curie-fellowship
The Materials Centre has recently welcomed Dr Rodolfo Marin Rivera, who has been granted a Marie Curie Individual fellowship to carry out research in the field of process engineering for sustainable recovery of valuable metals by ELECTRO-IONometallurgy.
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Leicester Cathedral dig finds coffin of asylum surgeon
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/cathedral-dig-surgeon
University of Leicester archaeologists have found the coffin of the first resident medical officer for the Leicestershire and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum in 1836.
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Citizens of Change: Our second century
https://le.ac.uk/about/strategy
Our Strategic Plan has been shaped by staff and students at the University to help us to realise our aim of pioneering a distinctive elite of research-intensive universities which are open to anyone with talent.
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Ruth David (1929-2020)
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2020/ruth-david
Ruth’s last visit to the University of Leicester, 26 November 2019.|The David Wilson Library holds copies of Ruth's memoirs, A Child of Her Time, and of Lifelines, a volume of letters she and her parents exchanged before they were deported to Auschwitz.
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19th century cake and icing recipes highlight historical approaches to baking
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/august/19th-century-cake-and-icing-recipes-highlight-historical-approaches-to-baking
An historical recipe for a 19th century version of Great British Bake Off classic Shrowsbury Cake has been made available by the University's Special Collections.
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Universitys Attenborough Arts Centre to take part in Leicester Comedy Festival this February
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/university2019s-attenborough-arts-centre-to-take-part-in-leicester-comedy-festival-this-february
The University’ Attenborough Arts Centre will take part in Leicester Comedy Festival this February to host 18 new shows by local favourites and new emerging comedians.
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Very Rev. Derek Hole
https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2021/derek-hole
We have learned, with regret, of the death of the Very Reverend Derek Hole, an Honorary Graduate and long-time supporter of the University. Born in Plymouth in 1933, Derek Hole felt called to the priesthood from a young age.