Search
-
Development data library
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/30/development-data-library/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 30, 2018 USAID Library relaunched with enhanced data. This website provides information on projects supported from its funding.
-
Social, Political and Economic Event Database (SPEED) Project Data.
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/05/12/social-political-and-economic-event-database-speed-project-data/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 12, 2014 … comprises data on de-stabilising events such as coups, revolutions and political and economic upheaval. Analysis has been made from a global news archive.
-
Charlie Hebdo attacks: first anniversary
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/charlie-hebdo-attacks-first-anniversary/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Twitter coverage of the anniversary The University of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance. With extracts from key French philosophers and writers.
-
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.
-
Friends of the Garden
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/friends-of-the-garden
Learn how to become a Friend of the Garden and help to promote and support the development of the Garden's plant collections and amenities.
-
Stephanie Bowry
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/graduate-profiles/stephanie-bowry
Museum Studies PhD graduate Stephanie Bowry discusses her three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, which investigates the spatial, conceptual and experimental relationships between gardens and galleries in England from 1500-1750.
-
Ghoulish practice of gibbeting corpses haunted public of the eighteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/ghoulish-practice-of-gibbeting-corpses-haunted-public-of-the-eighteenth-century
Today, a typical Halloween night might include people dressing up as ghosts, ghouls and a creepy clown or two in order to frighten passers-by. But some of the disturbing practices from history might be more harrowing than a modern audience is used to encountering.
-
The Enemy Within A Tale of Muslim Britain
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/june/the-enemy-within-a-tale-of-muslim-britain
Ex-Chair of the Conservative Party, Senior Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and once a Minister for Faith and Communities, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi was the first Muslim woman to attend Cabinet in Britain.
-
Rings of Saturn are dying
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/17-rings-of-saturn-are-dying
Rings of Saturn are dying Saturn's rings|University of Leicester graduate discovers Saturn’s rings are dying at a worst-case-scenario rate New research published in Icarus today (Monday 17 December), confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at a...
-
BAME academics are “chronically absent”, says Leicester Vice-Chancellor
https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/june/bame-scholarships
Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) academics are “chronically absent” in higher education, the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Leicester Professor Nishan Canagarajah, has said. His comments come as the University of Leicester today launches an £1.