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New community archaeology project in Market Bosworth receives Lottery funding
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/may/new-community-archaeology-project-in-market-bosworth-receives-lottery-funding
Bosworth Links - a new community archaeology project that provides residents the opportunity to carry out excavations in order to learn more about their town’s history has received a grant of £29,000 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
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Resource guide for China Studies
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/04/resource-guide-for-china-studies/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 4, 2024 Resource guide for China Studies Recently launched by American Council of Learned Societies this guide highlights free academic databases covering all aspects of the study of China.
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What others think of us is none of our business
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2018/04/17/what-others-think-of-us-is-none-of-our-business/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on April 17, 2018 This morning I learned that someone from my childhood in another country has died. It is sad above all else for his family and friends, of whom I believe he had many.
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Regional and local history
https://le.ac.uk/library/special-collections/explore/english-local-history
Since local boot and shoe manufacturer Thomas Hatton donated his collection of books on antiquarianism at our foundation, the University of Leicester Library has been collecting material on regional and local history.
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Are local councils broke?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/05/31/are-local-councils-broke/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2019 According to the County Councils Network Independent review of local government spending need and funding, an independent analysis of councils’ financial sustainability up to 2025...
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Local elections data
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/05/04/local-elections-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 4, 2018 Elections centre established by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher, Associate Members of Nuffield College, Oxford has a wealth of data on local election results from 1964 onwards.
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The Story of Pulque Part 2: A Tangle of Origins – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/18/the-story-of-pulque-part-2-a-tangle-of-origins/
Overview of different pre-Columbian narratives about the origins or discovery of pulque, and the various political, historical, and cultural roles these narratives served particularly for the Mexica (Aztecs)
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Cooking Inauthentically Part 2: An Experiment with Acarajé – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/05/04/cooking-inauthentically-part-2-an-experiment-with-acaraje/
Deborah Toner, the Project's PI, describes her first experience of making acarajé, the perils of taking shortcuts and the value of traditional recipes
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Locating the mortal remains of Richard III within the choir
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/discovery/locating-the-remains
Finding the grave and realising was an interesting and important skeleton buried there.
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on not using tidymodels
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/teachingr/2020/10/05/on-not-using-tidymodels/
argument against using tidymodels when teaching data analysis