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• Two thirds of healthcare workers lacked access to appropriate PPE during first lockdown

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/ppe-uk-reach

  A new study has revealed that two thirds (64.8%) of healthcare workers reported not having access to appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at all times during the first UK national lockdown.

• The Story of Pulque, Part 1

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/10/the-story-of-pulque-part-1/

  Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on March 10, 2015 In the 17th century, the Mexican historian Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl recorded a pre-Columbian legend about the origins of pulque.

• Mexican Cookery and the Importance of Chilies – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/07/22/mexican-cookery-and-the-importance-of-chillies/

  Project PI Deborah Toner writes about Mexican cookery and the use of dried chilies therein, based on a weekend of cookery-based relaxation, following the completion of the Consuming Authenticies recipe book.

• Acarajé diaries. Day 6 – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/06/30/acaraje-diaries-day-6/

  Project co-investigator Ana Martins describes here research on Acarajé, and ongoing fieldwork in Salvador.

• Completed projects

  https://le.ac.uk/timms/research/older-projects

  Explore the completed research projects being carried out by the TIMMS group at the University of Leicester.

• SVOM

  https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/projects/svom

  The University of Leicester is involved in the SVOM Mission - the Space based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor.

• About

  https://le.ac.uk/own-write/about

  In Their Own Right is a jointly run project by The National Archives at Kew Gardens and the Department of History at the University.

• 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/about/history/obituaries/2024

  Obituaries for members of the University community who have died in 2024.

• Historians pay tribute following death of Holocaust survivor

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/historians-pay-tribute-following-death-of-holocaust-survivor

  The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has joined in the world-wide expressions of regret on the death of Elie Wiesel.

• What is saffron

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/february/what-is-saffron

  Did you know that you need to collect about 200,000 flowers to produce just one kilo of saffron? The labour needed to produce it is just one of the many reasons that make the spice the world's most expensive agricultural product.