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  • The lives and letters of the poor in the nineteenth century

    https://le.ac.uk/own-write/lives-and-letters

    Pauper letters are helping historians write a new ‘history from below' by giving a voice to the ordinary men and women before the twentieth century.

  • University of Leicester media students join forces with NHS to produce a film for local mental health services

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/july/nhs-media

    Students from University of Leicester have teamed up with Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) to produce a film that introduces local children and young people to specialist mental health services.

  • Sir David Attenborough

    https://le.ac.uk/about/history/attenboroughs/david

    Our special connection with Sir David Attenborough began when he lived on campus as a boy. He has since visited campus several times and been awarded a Distinguished Honorary Fellowship.

  • New publication uncovers hidden histories of Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/november/new-publication-uncovers-hidden-histories-of-leicester

    Hidden histories of Leicester and Leicestershire have been published in a journal providing fascinating insights into our local past – including the role played by Mary Attenborough, mother of Richard, David and John Attenborough, in housing refugee Basque children escaping...

  • Global slavery index

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.

  • Past events

    https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton/events/past-events

    Browse past events which have taken place in the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

  • Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/24/economic-and-social-commission-for-asia-and-the-pacific/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2014 ESCAP digital publications Free access to its flagship publication Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific starting with the first edition published in 1948 and continuing...

  • Is the electoral system broken?

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/08/is-the-electoral-system-broken/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 8, 2015 According to the Electoral Reform Society  the UK electoral system is in crisis as the first-past-the-post system does not reflect votes cast.

  • How the future species of Earth may view fossils left behind after mankinds extinction

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/april/how-the-future-species-of-earth-may-view-fossils-left-behind-after-mankind2019s-extinction

    Giant hyper-evolved rats 100 million years from now, carefully and logically analysing petrified remains from the long-vanished human civilization – and getting the interpretation completely wrong!  That is the theme of a collaboration between the artist Anne-Sophie...

  • Feminism in the School curriculum

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/feminism-in-the-school-curriculum/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 This week MPs discussed the proposal for feminism to be dropped from the A Level politics curriculum. See the draft curriculum from 2015.

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