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Trailblazing rugby skipper and educator Floyd Steadman books Black History Month date at University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/floyd-steadman-black-history-month-university-leicester
Trailblazing rugby captain, educator, and leader, Floyd Steadman OBE, will be in conversation at a Black History Month event at the University of Leicester.
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Is London the most expensive world City?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/18/is-london-the-most-expensive-world-city/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 18, 2016 Find out by downloading the latest Worldwide cost of living Index 2016 from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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Academic encounters? International Relations Studies and the “Carceral Archipelago” project
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2017/03/02/academic-encounters-international-relations-studies-and-the-carceral-archipelago-project/
Posted by Christian De Vito in Carceral Archipelago on March 2, 2017 My recent appointment as lecturer at the History Department of the Utrecht University has brought me in close contact with the bourgeoning field of International Relations (IR) studies.
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2015 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/04/25/2015-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 25, 2016 Just Published by U.S. State Department this annual report which gives a world overview of trends and individual country reports.
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United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN)
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/26/united-nations-social-development-network-unsdn/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 26, 2012 http://unsdn.
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Posters from the Irish Civil Rights movement
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/07/27/posters-from-the-irish-civil-rights-movement/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 27, 2020 A new online exhibition from the Working Class Movement Library It includes images from 1969 posters made in Belfast and by London Poster Workshop.
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Where is the world’s happiest country?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/03/24/where-is-the-worlds-happiest-country/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 24, 2016 Find out in the 2016 update to the World Happiness report . It ranks 156 nations according to a number of detailed criteria which are explained in the methodology.
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Women’s rights in the Arab world
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/11/15/womens-rights-in-the-arab-world/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 15, 2013 Women’s rights in the Arab world. Thomson Reuters Foundation has published its third annual poll of gender experts, focusing on women’s rights in Arab League states.
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Research degrees
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/study/research-degrees
The Victorian Studies Centre at Leicester has a lively community of doctoral students, who register with the department most connected with their research topic (English, History or History of Art).
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The schoolboy sketches of John Leech
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/06/05/the-schoolboy-sketches-of-john-leech/
Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on June 5, 2017 The artist and illustrator John Leech, who became one of the foremost contributors to Punch and created the artwork for some of Dickens’ most popular works, notably A Christmas Carol , was born in 1817...