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Lifting: An Easter Custom
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/03/21/lifting-and-heaving-an-easter-custom/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on March 21, 2016 Lifting – an Easter Custom from William Hone, The Every-Day Book (London, 1826), vol. 1, p.
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Our current exhibition ‘Joe Orton in 1964’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/06/03/our-current-exhibition-joe-orton-in-1964/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 3, 2014 When Joe Orton’s play Entertaining Mr Sloane was performed in the West End in 1964, it provoked both virulent criticism and glowing praise – he enjoyed both in equal measure. The critic W.
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Cider in Unexpected Places? Rural Chile and the Cider Pressing – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/08/24/cider-in-unexpected-places-rural-chile-and-the-cider-pressing/
Deborah Toner discusses the social and cultural importance of cider making in rural Southern Chile in South America, summarising the work of Anton Daughters that appears in recent book Alcohol in Latin America: A Social and Cultural History, edited by Gretchen Pierce and...
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The Doctor as a ‘Street-Level Bureaucrat’
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/09/23/the-doctor-as-a-street-level-bureaucrat/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on September 23, 2018 Why don’t policies play out as planned? It’s a key question in public policy.
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Using Theory in Improvement Research – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2015/06/25/theory-in-improvement/
This SAPPHIRE blog argues that far from being overly complex and irrelevant, theory has a practical role to play in healthcare improvement. We all need to work to make theory more accessible for the front-line practitioners doing improvement work.
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Laser-firing spacecraft lauded by Leicester Director
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/laser-firing-spacecraft-lauded-by-leicester-director
Professor John Remedios, Head and Professor of Earth Observation Science and head of the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) at our University has been involved in an event for a new European Space Agency instrument.
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Talking Loud and Clear
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2019/06/06/talking-loud-and-clear/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on June 6, 2019 I guess it must be the time of year, but recently reading about students in Ireland doing their Leaving Certificate examinations I was reminded of the warm summer (past summers always seem warmer) when...
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Who is a leader?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/medicalleaders/2018/08/09/who-is-a-leader/
Posted by Nate in Medical Leadership in the Foundations on August 9, 2018 One of my professors was sceptical when I told her I had been accepted onto the Leadership and Management Academic Foundation Programme.
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Alexander Waugh at the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society – The University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2015/10/29/alexander-waugh-at-the-leicester-lit-and-phil/
Alexander Waugh gave a talk on Combe Florey House to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society
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Is a product really worth what someone will pay for it?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2017/08/23/is-a-product-really-worth-what-someone-will-pay-for-it/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on August 23, 2017 I recently had reason to compare the work of people at opposite ends of the work-related pay scales that our society has developed.