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The Aesthetics of Authenticity in the Modern Chain Pub – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/02/13/the-aesthetics-of-authenticity-in-the-modern-chain-pub/
Discussion of a book chapter about the "Pub Authenticity-Value Aesthetic" in relation to the JD Wetherspoon pub chain, recently published in an edited volume Biographies of Drink (CSP, 2015)
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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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Sue Townsend (1946-2014)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/04/16/sue-townsend-1946-2014/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on April 16, 2014 It was with great sadness that we learned last week of the death of one of our depositors, Sue Townsend, the creator of the Adrian Mole diaries and one of the most popular British novelists of the late...
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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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50 years of credit cards
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/04/50-years-of-credit-cards/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 4, 2016 Its 50 years since people started using credit cards in the UK with the issue of the first Barclaycards. The BBC has a fascinating social history feature.
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Alberto Fernández Carbajal
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/author/afc9/
Alberto is a Leverhulme Fellow at School of English, University of Leicester, where he previously was Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial Literature.