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Leicester Symphony Orchestra
https://le.ac.uk/centenary/events/lso
A concert on 23 October 2021 by the Leicester Symphony Orchestra, supported by the University, was a triple celebration. The event marked both the centenaries of both the University, which accepted its first students in 1921, and the LSO, which was founded one year later.
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Wathes collection
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/collections/all/wathes
The Wathes collection was commissioned by Wathes, an electrical high street store, in order to commeorate the centenary of the company. Learn more about the collection.
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How Facebook news presents different realities
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/27/how-facebook-news-presents-different-realities/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 27, 2016 A new tool created by the Wall Street Journal Blue Feed Red Feed allows users to examine how different news sources cover political topics. See the Nieman reports.
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We Wear Culture
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/13/we-wear-culture/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 13, 2017 Great New Project from Google Arts and Culture Offers which offers free access to 30,000 Digitized Images and VR Films of Fashion Pieces From 180 famous Archives, Museums and Others.
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Fake news spreads faster than true
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/16/fake-news-spreads-faster-than-true/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 16, 2018 A team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) cross-checked the spread of 126,000 stories on Twitter against a database of stories fact-checked by six...
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Aswat
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/10/17/aswat/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 17, 2011 https://www.aswat.com/en/about A website which aims to offer a place for activists and reformers from the Middle East and Africa to post news and exchange viewpoints.
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Are emojis sexist?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/13/are-emojis-sexist/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 13, 2016 Certainly Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for 13 proposed designs to...
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Accreditation of prior learning
https://le.ac.uk/education/study/distance-learning/accreditation-prior-learning
This information is for applicants who have received an offer for the Educational Leadership MSc (by distance learning) who wish to apply for Accreditation of Prior Credited Learning (APCL) or Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL).
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Adele Parks: My time at Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/english/about/famous-names/adele-parks
Find out what bestselling author Adele Parks remembers about her time studying English at the University of Leicester.
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Section 9 - Committees
https://le.ac.uk/about/who-we-are/governance/documents/statutes/committees
Read Section 9 of our Statutes, entitled Committees. This section outlines the operational practices of the University’s Committees and Boards.