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Should sexist adverts be banned?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/16/should-sexist-adverts-be-banned/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2019 This week the first prosecutions were made against adverts considered sexist by the new ASA code on gender stereotyping.
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Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2011
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/12/02/monitoring-poverty-and-social-exclusion-2011/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 2, 2011 http://www.jrf.org.
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Cuban Missile Crisis: 50 years
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/11/05/cuban-missile-crisis-50-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 5, 2012 To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.archives.gov/nae/visit/gallery.
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Online fact-checking – a growing trend
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/online-fact-checking-a-growing-trend/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 A recent report from the Reuters Institute has traced the rise of political fact-checking sites in Europe. It recorded 113 such groups are active today.
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Prague Spring – 50 years on
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/08/24/prague-spring-50-years-on/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 24, 2018 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union.
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Human Trafficking
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/human-trafficking-2/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 30th July was World Day Against Trafficking in Persons . The official UN website provides background on the need for the day and related United Nations publications.
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Party Like it’s 1929
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/09/01/1929/
Invitation to an Eveybody's Reading 2014 event celebrating Evelyn Waugh.
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Living with COVID-19
https://le.ac.uk/living-with-covid-19
h1 {color:#000;} |Last updated: Friday 13 October 2023 It has been some time since the UK Government brought an end to COVID-19 restrictions in England and introduced their Living With COVID-19 plan, we have moved into the next phase of living with the virus, which...
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Financial concerns lead to symptoms of depression in healthcare workers
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/healthcare-workers
Financial concerns among healthcare workers are a driving factor for declining mental health.
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University of Leicester’s new support for parents of babies born premature or requiring neonatal care awarded charter mark
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/january/employer-with-heart-neonatal-leave
The University of Leicester has been recognised for its support of parents of premature babies and those who required neonatal care with the Employer with Heart charter mark from the charity The Smallest Things.