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Intelligence: Key Concepts and Debates
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/pl7540
Module code: PL7540 Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly after the 9/11 attacks, intelligence has become increasingly important to governments and other entities trying to deal with a growing number of traditional and non-traditional threats: terrorism,...
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The Politics of Women’s Suffrage
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/22/the-politics-of-womens-suffrage/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2021 The Politics of Women’s Suffrage edited by Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Lyndsey Jenkins. A new open-access book from the School of Advanced study, University of London.
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World’s Muslims: Unity and Diversity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/08/17/worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 17, 2012 http://www.pewforum.org/Muslim/the-worlds-muslims-unity-and-diversity-executive-summary.
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Law graduate Ella’s journey from Clearing to national champion
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/law-graduate-ella-journey-from-clearing-national-champion
When Ella Bailey came to the University of Leicester through Clearing, she never dreamed that she would graduate as a national law competition champion.
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Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/digital-archive-of-japans-2011-disasters/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 The Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters is a project by Harvard University to collect, preserve and make available the digital records of the Japan’s disasters to assist scholarly...
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Oral history: Women’s Liberation Movement
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/06/24/oral-history-womens-liberation-movement/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 24, 2022 Recordings of 14 interviews done to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) in 2020.
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Deputy Labour leader cites University of Leicester research in speech at Co-Operative Party economy conference
https://le.ac.uk/news/2017/january/deputy-labour-leader-cites-university-of-leicester-research-in-speech-at-co-operative-party-economy-conference
Leicester academics were cited in a speech given by Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, at the Co-Operative Party economy conference on 28 January.
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Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys to be guest speaker at unique fundraising event
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/professor-sir-alec-jeffreys-to-be-guest-speaker-at-unique-fundraising-event
Students and academics are invited to attend the Science Museum’s IMAX Theatre in London on Monday 16 May 2016 and spend an evening with the inventor of forensic DNA fingerprinting and emeritus professor, Sir Alec Jeffreys. The event, starting at 7.
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Openness in animal research among UK’s best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/leader-in-openness
The University of Leicester has once again been named as one of the UK’s ‘Leaders in Openness’ by national body Understanding Animal Research.
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Trump’s inauguration
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/trumps-inauguration/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 On inauguration day The Guardian news is experimenting with a number of live news features. See the first filmed inauguration in 1901 via the Library of Congress website.