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

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/page/48/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester

• Turi King returns to our screens with DNA Family Secrets

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/september/dna-family-secrets

  Professor of Genetics Turi King returns to our screens on September 27th on BBC Two at 9pm for another heart wrenching series of DNA Family Secrets

• Where is the best place to be a working woman?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/13/where-is-the-best-place-to-be-a-working-woman/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 13, 2015 To mark International Women’s day the Economist created a ‘glass-ceiling index’ which uses OECD data to rank factors including gender pay gaps and labour force participation.

• The Right to be Heard Framework: A learning companion

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/the-right-to-be-heard-framework-a-learning-companion/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 An online guide from Oxfam intended for development workers.  The right to be heard framework aims to help poor people be heard by politicians.

• Global Slavery Index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/10/23/globval-slavery-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 23, 2013 Global slavery index.   Published this week by the Walk Free Foundation.

• OECD Education at a Glance 2013 Report.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/28/oecd-education-at-a-glance-2013-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 28, 2013 http://www.oecd.org/edu/eag.htm   This has key indicators.

• Black Freedom Struggle in the United States.

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/11/05/black-freedom-struggle-in-the-united-states/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 5, 2020 An open-access archive of primary sources covering the following six topics: Slavery and abolition Civil war and reconstruction Jim Crow segregation 1878-1932 New Deal and WWII Civil...

• Richard III and the legacy of his re-discovery

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/march/richard-iii-and-the-legacy-of-his-re-discovery

  Mathew Morris (pictured), Site Director for the Grey Friars Project, University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS), has written an article for the British Academy reflecting on his time working on the discovery of Richard III.

• World AIDS day 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/12/04/world-aids-day-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 4, 2015 World AIDs Day is December 1st. The 2015 campaign urges people to rethink HIV stereotypes.

• Measuring the temperature of our planets land surfaces

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/july/measuring-the-temperature-of-our-planets-land-surfaces

  Our researchers are leading a major new project to measure the temperature of the Earth’s land surfaces. Evidence suggests that long-term trends in surface temperature can be an indicator of climate change.