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Georgian chocolate-making rooms open to public after 300 years

Georgian chocolate-making rooms open to public after 300 years

[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 visitors will be able to sample a hot chocolate recipe from centuries past. The historical hot chocolate on sale draws […]

Challenging the notion of ‘neutrality’ in social media

Challenging the notion of ‘neutrality’ in social media

In a new study Dr Ruth Page (pictured) from the School of English suggests that we shouldn’t believe everything that we read – and that on websites such as Wikipedia information may not be as neutral as it seems. In her recently published paper in the academic journal Language and Literature entitled ‘Counter narratives and […]

A Solution to the ‘Perfect Murder’? P. D. James and the Case of Julia Wallace

A Solution to the ‘Perfect Murder’? P. D. James and the Case of Julia Wallace   At the end of last month, The Sunday Times proclaimed that the crime novelist P. D. James had found a solution to the murder of Julia Wallace, an unsolved case from early 1931 that has sometimes been dubbed the […]

Congrats to Martin Halliwell on his John Maynard Keynes Fellowship in US Studies

(from http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2013/october/american-studies-expert-takes-up-prestigious-research-fellowship)   University of Leicester’s Professor Martin Halliwell will research American medicine and psychiatry as part of a new fellowship at the Institute of the Americas, University College London Issued by University of Leicester Press Office on 4 October 2013 Images of Professor Halliwell’s publications available from pt91@le.ac.uk A University of Leicester expert on […]

On the staff: the rocking chair years

In most professions, retirement means stopping work, taking a long holiday, and turning to charitable and leisure pursuits, or possibly to drink. Academics are different: in the old joke, they don’t die; they just lose their faculties. Certainly retirement marks a change in the rhythms of life: after forty years of term and vacation, term […]

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