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  • 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...

  • Evading a flogging by the Whipping Toms

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/02/27/evading-a-flogging-by-the-whipping-toms/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on February 27, 2017 Prior to 1846, Leicester had its own very particular way of celebrating Shrove Tuesday, which precedes the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday and was therefore the occasion for an outburst of eating,...

  • Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 14

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/14/

    Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

  • John Evelyn and the war with the Dutch

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2015/10/20/john-evelyn-and-the-war-with-the-dutch/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on October 20, 2015 Engraved portrait of John Evelyn by W. H. Worthington, from an original painting by Walker. From the Fairclough Collection, EP36, Box 3, p. 310.

  • 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.

  • Target Wound Infection Study

    https://le.ac.uk/cardiovascular-sciences/about/heart-surgery/national-cardiac-surgery-clinical-trials-programme/infection-prevention/target-wound-infection-study-overview

    Target Wound Infection Study is looking at developing a way of working out whether patients have a high or a low risk of developing a wound infection

  • Write an essay, get a kitten!

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/24/write-an-essay-get-a-kitten/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 24, 2017 Originally compiled to assist students with dyslexia and special needs, AbilityNet’s great blog posting has tips on apps for motivation and focus when studying which will help everyone.

  • Our World in Data: Migration Explorer 

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/03/22/our-world-in-data-migration-explorer/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2022 Explore global data on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers in a new visual dashboard created by Our World in Data using statistics derived from  United Nations Department...

  • The Economics of Chocolate

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/26/the-economics-of-chocolate/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 26, 2013 The International Cocoa organization provides free access to basic statistics on prices see the monthly market reviews.

  • 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.

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