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MA Scholarship Award Holders Announced
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2014/08/01/ma-scholarship-award-holders-announced/
Posted by David Revill in School of English Blog on August 1, 2014 Congratulations! to the following four applicants who have each been awarded a £2000 MA Scholarship : Mariette Cracknell (MA Victorian Studies),Kelsyn Delaney (MA Modern Literature and...
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Orwell vs Kafka
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/06/10/orwell-vs-kafka/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 10, 2024 A suite of special programmes broadcast over eight days on BBC Radio 4 comprising a reading of 1984, six 30-minute documentaries on the authors and the relevance of their writing today...
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Cuts and austerity
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/cuts-and-austerity/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 What do the British public think of the cuts and austerity policy? Latest research from IPSO Mori shows 43% think public services are worse than 5 years ago but only 23% say they have...
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The Web Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/10/the-web-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 10, 2016 … “tracks the Web’s contribution to social, economic and political progress across 86 countries.” Find it at: http://thewebindex.
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State of the World 2014/15: Amnesty International
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/03/23/state-of-the-world-201415-amnesty-international/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2015 Amnesty International’s annual review of human rights includes overview essays and country surveys covering freedom, rights, discrimination and abuses.
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Trade in non-plastic substitutes
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/trade-in-non-plastic-substitutes/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 This website tracking international trade in non-plastic substitutes is now available on UN Trade and Development’s Datahub online.
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The Black Frontline
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/the-black-frontline/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 This project has conducted 300 oral histories with Black doctors and nurses in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ghana.
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UoL Historian wins double book prize
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/07/18/uol-historian-wins-double-book-prize/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 18, 2024 Clare Anderson, Professor of History and Director of the Leicester Institute for Advanced Studies, has won the Social History Society Book Prize 2024 and the Australian Historical...
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Parchment used in immersive experience
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2018/06/08/the-beast-in-me-guest-post-by-armand-de-filippo-museum-studies/dav-3/
10. A full-size piece of vellum (calf-skin) suspended on a frame and prepared ready for writing on. The pattern of the animal's spine can still be seen running along the central length of the vellum.
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Oxfam launch land rights website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/12/10/oxfam-launch-land-rights-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 10, 2018 Oxfam have now gathered together reports, news and indicators on all aspects of their work on land rights on a new website .