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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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Visits to Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/richard-iii/richard-iii-and-leicester/visits-to-leicester
Richard III visited Leicester often, both as a boy and as Duke of Gloucester. Find out about his final stay in Leicester at the Blue Boar Inn.
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Leicester academics called on to help advance space science in Europe
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/usra
University of Leicester is one of only nine European universities in the Universities Space Research Association's newly established European region called Region X (10)
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A tulip bulb, the value of which would have fed ‘a whole ship’s crew for a twelvemonth’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/04/07/a-tulip-bulb-the-value-of-which-would-have-fed-a-whole-ships-crew-for-a-twelvemonth/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on April 7, 2017 The tulip, with its bold, eye-catching flowers in a wide variety of gorgeous colours, is in bloom, in many of our spring gardens, making one of their most striking features.
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Remembering the Holocaust: The Majut Collection
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2024/01/23/remembering-the-holocaust-the-majut-collection/
Posted by Eleanor Bloomfield in Library and Learning Services on January 23, 2024 Please note that this post contains content relating to suicide and the Holocaust.
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The need to forge new models of international partnership
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/january/apollo-blog
Henrietta O’Connor shares the University of Leicester's international partnership model built on complementary areas of expertise, identifying shared aims, and finding areas of commonality.
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Museums Alive!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2014/11/20/museums-alive/
Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on November 20, 2014 A guest blog post by Ryan Nutting Museums Alive! participants The PhD students at the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies recently partnered with the Migration Museum Project to...
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University of Sanctuary, University of Refuge
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/02/24/university-of-sanctuary-university-of-refuge/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on February 24, 2017 This week, Martin Parker considers whether the University of Leicester should commit to being a University of Sanctuary for refugees.
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Brain Awareness Week 2019
https://le.ac.uk/dbs/outreach/brain-awareness-week-2019
The Division of Biomedical Services was proud to take part in the University of Leicester's Brain Awareness event in March 2019.
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Managing Human Resources Strategically
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/mn7707
Module code: MN7707 Many organisations declare that 'people are our most important asset', and human resource managers often contend that they take an increasingly strategic role in organisations.