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  • The most dangerous places for a journalist

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 7, 2014 According to data from the  Committee to Protect Journalists  in 2013 it was Syria, Iraq and Egypt. See the  Guardian Datablog  visualisation graphic.

  • Renie Lewis

    We have learned with great sadness of the death of Renie Lewis, a former colleague in the Politics Department, who passed away after a short illness on 27 March 2023.

  • Postgraduate programmes

    The University of Leicester offers a number of postgraduate degrees with American Studies.

  • How the BBC is using WhatsApp

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...

  • 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...

  • Preserving the grave

    One problem faced by the team was, how best to preserve the grave for posterity. Under normal circumstances, the best protection is to carefully cover the archaeology with a protective membrane and rebury it.

  • Countries at the Crossroads 2011

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=702 Access the full text of this report from Freedom House.

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Lei

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • Is the Internet racist?

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 A trending project called worldwhite.ne t is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of ‘inherent racism in Google image searches’.

  • Literary experts and historians from around the world gather in Leicester to celebrate George Eliot’s bicentenary

    George Eliot George Eliot illustration|The University of Leicester will this week (Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 July) play host to an international conference marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of novelist George Eliot.

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