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The Story of Pulque Part 2: A Tangle of Origins – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/consumingauthenticities/2015/03/18/the-story-of-pulque-part-2-a-tangle-of-origins/
Overview of different pre-Columbian narratives about the origins or discovery of pulque, and the various political, historical, and cultural roles these narratives served particularly for the Mexica (Aztecs)
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Cataloguing the AIM archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2020/01/08/hanna-noor-cataloguing-the-aim-archive/
Posted by vholmes in Library Special Collections on January 8, 2020 Guest post from Hana Noor, a former MA Museum Studies student at the University of Leicester, 2019 Some of the AIM papers in the archive store, before processing As part of my...
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Fair Game? A Reviewers Tale
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2017/02/11/fair-game-a-reviewers-tale/
Posted by Martin Parker in School of Business Blog on February 11, 2017 Emeritus Professor Peter Armstrong (p.armstrong@le.ac.uk) discusses an episode in the journal reviewing process that led him to believe that power and politics play their part too.
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The Continuing Imperialism of Free Trade
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2018/12/03/the-continuing-imperialism-of-free-trade/
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on December 3, 2018 In this post Dr Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History in ULSB, discusses his recently published book, co-edited with Dr Jo Grady (University of Sheffield), on the continuing...
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Chang’e 5: China launches Sample Return Mission to the Moon
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/11/26/change-5-china-launches-sample-return-mission-to-the-moon/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 26 November 2020 Professor John Bridges reports on the successful launch of a new Chinese mission to return samples from the Moon, in this blog post reprinted from The Conversation .
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Conducting a systematic literature review: reflections and resources – University of Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/loproject/2014/04/10/systreview/
The Learning Outcomes Project at the University of Leicester. Conducting a systematic literature review: reflections and resources.
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Prophesying Leicester City’s success in 1895?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/12/prophesying-leicester-citys-success-in-1895/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 12, 2016 In a previous blog post, I talked about the early days of Leicester Fosse Football Club. The Fosse, or ‘The Fossils’ as they were known to their supporters, eventually became Leicester City in 1920.
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Don’t panic, Mary Berry’s Bakewell tart recipe is safe!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/19/dont-panic-mary-berrys-bakewell-tart-recipe-is-safe/
Posted by Simon Dixon in Library Special Collections on May 19, 2016 University of Leicester Homepage, 13 June 1997 (source: Wayback Machine) It is almost impossible to conduct academic research today without at some stage needing to access information on the internet.
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Training apprentices: do small firms do it better?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/10/08/training-apprentices-do-small-firms-do-it-better/
Posted by Dan Bishop in School of Business Blog on October 8, 2014 Dan Bishop, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, challenges the ‘large firm’ paradigm on which apprenticeship-oriented politics has conventionally been based Apprenticeships and small businesses have...
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Contemporary Labour Reform: Where “Pay Rise” Equals diminished household income and “Progressive’s”
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2015/08/04/contemporary-labour-reform-where-pay-rise-equals-diminished-household-income-and-progressives-anything-but/
Posted by in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2015 Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, Jo Grady, looks behind The Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s upbeat rhetoric to reveal the downplayed reality “Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is...