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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)

• Staff projects

  https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/research/projects/staff-projects

  Take a look at projects being undertaken by staff at the University of Leicester's Stanley Burton Centre for Holocause and Genocide Studies.

• Knowing where to look

  https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/knowing-where-to-look

  Whilst nothing of the friary remains above ground today, its site has never actually been lost, despite one early map of Leicester, the 1610 Speed map, getting its location wrong.

• Student gospel choir to give pop-up concert at Leicester’s John Lewis for Black History Month

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/student-gospel-choir-concert-john-lewis-black-history-month

  A student gospel choir will entertain John Lewis shoppers as part of the University of Leicester’s Black History Month celebrations.

• Manifesto for Change

  https://le.ac.uk/hate-studies/research/manifesto-for-change

  The Centre for Hate Studies and Protection Approaches have partnered to address spiralling levels of hate crime and deepening community divisions, exacerbated by the absence of a Hate Crime Action Plan.

• Postgraduate programmes

  https://le.ac.uk/history/study/postgraduate

  History at the University of Leicester has a thriving postgraduate community. We offer a variety of degrees, which reflect the expertise of our staff allowing us to offer a diverse teaching programme and support a large and vibrant research culture.

• Convicts and the Sea

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2018/07/25/convicts-and-the-sea-the-naval-influence-on-gibraltar-convict-establishment/

  Blog about the influence of naval practice on the punishment of convicts on the royal dockyard in Gibraltar in the nineteenth century.

• Geography with Foundation Year BSc

  https://le.ac.uk/courses/geography-with-foundation-year-bsc/2026

  There’s always another way to follow your passion. If you don’t quite have the entry requirements to study geography at Leicester, this STEM Foundation Year degree is for you.

• Events

  https://le.ac.uk/computing-and-mathematical-sciences/research/events

  Events in the University of Leicester School of Computing and Maths

• Suggested research topics

  https://le.ac.uk/english/study/research-degrees/application-process/research-topics

  Take a look at the suggestions for PhD projects that staff in English at the University of Leicester would be interested in supervising.