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• Gender balance in politics

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/08/05/gender-balance-in-politics/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 5, 2016 A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance  is trying to gather information about women in politics.  The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site.

• 1929 election cartoons on women voters

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/05/08/1929-election-cartoons-on-women-voters/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 8, 2015 University of Kent archive has fascinating examples of cartoons from newspapers on how women will vote! Posted in Politics , Sociology | Tagged Democracy , Feminism , Politics ,...

• Where do Graduates Move to?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/12/06/where-do-graduates-move-to/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 6, 2016 Interesting report from the Centre for Cities which argues that there is a brain drain with UK graduates migrating towards London and other larger cities.

• Many access news on smartphones

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/many-access-news-on-smartphones/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 According to a number of recent research studies many people are now using their smartphones. A report from the Knight Foundation recently found that , 89% of the U.S.

• Fake News – a new tool

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/fake-news-a-new-tool/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 Hoaxy is a joint project of the Indiana University Network Science Institute ( IUNI ) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research it aims to provide visualisations of fake...

• Sakura celebration: Students plant ‘symbol of Japan’ on Leicester campus

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/cherry-blossom

  The tree planting was lent special significance in the University’s Centenary year, as Leicester’s first international student, Tamotsu Shishikura, came to the University College from Tokyo to study English between 1922 and 1924.

• Prophesying Leicester City’s success in 1895?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/05/12/prophesying-leicester-citys-success-in-1895/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 12, 2016   In a previous blog post, I talked about the early days of Leicester Fosse Football Club. The Fosse, or ‘The Fossils’ as they were known to their supporters, eventually became Leicester City in 1920.

• Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 9

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/9/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Volunteering with UOSH

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2019/06/20/volunteering-with-uosh/

  Posted by Colin Hyde in Library Special Collections on June 20, 2019 Hello I’m Ellie Priestley, a second year Ancient History and History student here at the University of Leicester.

• Career trajectories in UK departments of Politics and International Relations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/career-trajectories-in-uk-departments-of-politics-and-international-relations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 A report for the British International Studies Association and the Political Studies Association covering UK academic careers in Higher education.