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• Award-winning Irchester Field School brings Roman history to life for local community 

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/july/heritage-hub-irchester-field-school-mj-award

  A University of Leicester partnership with North Northamptonshire Council has won an MJ Award.

• Memorial service remembers donors

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/memorial-body-donation-leicester

  A memorial service for those who bequeathed their bodies to Leicester Medical School has taken place.

• Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities

  https://le.ac.uk/about/making-a-difference/sdgs/reduced-inequalities

  The tenth Sustainable Development Goal is to reduce inequality within and among countries.

• “Millennials will spend £53,000 on rent before age of 30”

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/millennials-will-spend-53000-on-rent-before-age-of-30/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 …according to a new report by the Resolution foundation .  See also some interesting comment on declining home ownership and living standards for the young from the Guardian.

• Happiness research

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/01/happiness-research/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 1, 2011 This week the Office for National Statistics released the results of a public consultation on indicators which the British public feel should be used to measure happiness National...

• The riots of summer 2011: Seminar organized by the Campaign for Social Science

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/04/the-riots-of-summer-2011-seminar-organized-by-the-campaign-for-social-science/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 4, 2011 http://www.socialsciencespace.

• Occupy Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/11/occupy-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 11, 2011 Another site archiving protest materials.  This one http://occupyarchive.

• Cross-national income database

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/09/cross-national-income-database/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2012 Luxembourg Income Database (LIS) http://www.lisdatacenter.

• Charitable giving

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/charitable-giving/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving   https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.

• British Council film collection online: British Social History

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/british-council-film-collection-now-online/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-council-film-collection Free access to a historic archive of 120 films made during the 1940s which focussed upon how Britain lived and worked.