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Anne Lister
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/11/17/anne-lister/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 17, 2023 Anne Lister Research Summit resources are now online. View resources including videos from the 2023 summit on the world of ‘Gentleman Jack’ Anne Lister.
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True of false?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/02/08/true-of-false/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 8, 2013 The Washington Post has produced a checking program, Truth Teller, http://truthteller.washingtonpost.
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Leicester's cultural 'renaissance' includes Attenborough Arts Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/december/04-lcc-brochure
Every city should have an Attenborough Arts Centre. This is the gallery, venue, workshop, and performance space that wears its culture as lightly as the silk parachutes and floor cushions in its experiential sessions.
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Funding
https://le.ac.uk/medieval/study/funding
Find out about funding opportunities for postgraduate and research degrees, including details of studentships and bursaries and the Medieval Research Centre's small research grants.
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How to Sell Success, Failure and Fanaticism? Understand the Customer!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/06/02/how-to-sell-success-failure-and-fanaticism-understand-the-customer/
Posted by Georgios Patsiaouras in School of Business Blog on June 2, 2014 Georgios Patsiaouras, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption at the School, draws sobering lessons from the popularity of the recent Hollywood Blockbuster, The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Emoji is the fastest growing language
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/emoji-is-the-fastest-growing-language/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 Emoji’s are ‘pictographs. Originally used in Japanese electronic messages, many characters have now been incorporated into Unicode and the launch of Emoj.li.
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Violence cost the world 13.6 Trillion US dollars in 2015
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/violence-cost-the-world-13-6-trillion-us-dollars-in-2015/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 Shocking statistics The latest annual edition of the Global Peace index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) .
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Will people in the UK live shorter lives?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/10/03/will-people-in-the-uk-live-shorter-lives/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 3, 2018 This week the newspapers reported that life expectancy is falling or stalled in the UK for the first time since records began, but what are the facts on this? Here are some useful...
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Childrens experiences and responses to war in the nineteenth century
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/march/children2019s-experiences-and-responses-to-war-in-the-nineteenth-century
What we can learn about war from the writing of child soldiers in the nineteenth century will be explored in a BBC Radio 3 Essay on Thursday 22 March with Dr Emma Butcher from our School of Arts.
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Observatory of killed journalists
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/11/16/observatory-of-killed-journalists/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 16, 2018 New database from UNESCO. Shocki ngly the The Observatory records 1,293 killings since 1993, including more than 80 recorded in 2018 .