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• Introducing the Consuming Authenticities project – University of Leicester

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2014/12/17/introducing-the-project/

  Consuming Authenticities is an AHRC-funded research project exploring the role of history in establishing the cultural importance of different foods and drinks.

• University of Leicester staff blogs Georgian chocolate-making rooms open to the public after 300 yea

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/03/27/georgian-chocolate-making-rooms-open-to-public-after-300-years/

  Posted by Julie Coleman in School of English Blog on March 27, 2014 [From a University of Leicester Press Release] The Georgian royal chocolate-making rooms at Hampton Court Palace have been rediscovered and are open to the public for the first time in almost 300 years – and...

• Mr Bevan’s Dream

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/02/mr-bevans-dream/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 2, 2014 The funeral of Sue Townsend began today with a public celebration of her life at De Montfort Hall.

• Special Collections in the News

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/09/11/special-collections-in-the-news/

  Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on September 11, 2014 While we may be tucked away in the basement of the David Wilson Library there are plenty of exciting discoveries to be made in Special Collections, as recent media interest in our collections demonstrates.

• Joe Orton, Edna Welthorpe and Creative Writing by Bryony Adshead

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2017/11/10/joe-orton-edna-welthorpe-and-creative-writing-by-bryony-adshead/

  Posted by Emma Parker in School of English Blog on November 10, 2017 After signing up for an Open Day at the University of Leicester, I was intrigued to receive an email regarding the ‘Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)’ creative writing competition, run by Dr Emma Parker...

• Student placement in Special Collections, Week 3-4

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/library/2025/08/14/student-placement-in-special-collections-week-3-4/

  Posted by Sarah Wood in Library and Learning Services on August 14, 2025 Guest post written by Yi-Chen Su and Yongqin Huang, who are completing an eight week placement in Archives & Special Collections as part of their MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies .

• Islam: Religion or Politics?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/queeringislam/2014/11/25/islam-religion-or-politics/

  Posted by Alberto Fernández Carbajal in Queering Islam on November 25, 2014 Lately, I have been reading the work of Timothy Fitzgerald (University of Stirling, UK), a leading scholar of religion, particularly his thought-provoking book  Discourse on Civility...

• Careers: Work experience with the SAPPHIRE research group

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/sapphire/2018/01/31/careers-work-experience-with-the-sapphire-research-group/

  Want to know more about the work of SAPPHIRE and what it's like to work here? SAPPHIRE recently had the opportunity to have a Sociology undergraduate student do a work experience placement with us.

• Museums and social justice – and why I bang on about it quite a lot.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/2018/04/12/museums-and-social-justice-and-why-i-bang-on-about-it-quite-a-lot/

  Posted by Robin Clarke in School of Museum Studies Blog on April 12, 2018   This week marked the 73 rd anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany. Between 1937 and 1945, 280,000 people were imprisoned there.

• fl47

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/covid-in-cartoons/author/fransiska_louwagie/

  Political Cartooning in Côte d’Ivoire: Interview with Lassane Zohoré Posted by fl47 in Covid in Cartoons on May 11, 2022 JI: What first drew you to cartooning? LZ: I’ve been cartooning since I was little, before I started school.