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• ‘Domestic violence is a form of arbitrary execution’

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/domestic-violence-is-a-form-of-arbitrary-execution/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 …according to the latest report issued by Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (Gender-sensitive approach to arbitrary killings) – Advance...

• 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.

• 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

• 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,...

• What do students want from university?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/23/what-do-students-want-from-university/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 23, 2017 Interesting new study released by Comres for Universities UK entitled Education, consumer rights and maintaining trust , focuses on how students view their roles as consumers –...

• Hate Crime USA

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/25/hate-crime-usa/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 25, 2012 http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.

• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum project

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/07/24/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-claims-of-asylum-project/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 24, 2017 SOGICA is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) that explores the social and legal experiences of asylum seekers across Europe claiming international...

• Big data

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/01/10/big-data/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 10, 2014 Accessing and Using Big Data to Advance Social Science Knowledge A useful project to follow  from the Oxford Internet Institute. Running 2012-14.

• World Internet Report 2015

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/18/world-internet-report-2015/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 18, 2016 The Center for the Digital Future has issued the latest annual edition of the World Internet Project Report.

• Is the Internet racist?

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/06/19/is-the-internet-racist/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 19, 2015 A trending project called worldwhite.ne t is seeking to expose and use crowdsourcing power to correct, examples of ‘inherent racism in Google image searches’.