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Secret documents online
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/20/secret-documents-online/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 20, 2017 The new CIA Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room can be found at https://www.cia.
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Expanded Hansard coverage for UK Parliament website
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/03/expanded-hansard-coverage-for-uk-parliament-website/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 3, 2018 A new redesigned site now offers 200 years of parliamentary debates from the main UK website . You can quickly search by Members, debates and petitions.
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US election data sets
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/us-election-data-sets/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Covering 2000-2016. Recently released by Library of Congress data package on data.labs.loc.
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Groundbreaking research identifies what makes human brains – and humans – unique in the animal world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/november/14-concept-cells
A neuroscientist at the University of Leicester has identified a fundamental difference between human and animal brains. This breakthrough, published today in the journal Cell, offers an explanation for what makes Homo sapiens so vastly different from even our nearest relatives.
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Bioinformatics and Health Data science group
https://le.ac.uk/health-data-research
The Bioinformatics Research Group ‘Brookeslab’ was established in 2004 when Professor Anthony J Brookes came over from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. His team quickly established the web based database GWAS Central and gained much success with the international GEN2PHEN project.
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Geographical Visualisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2025/gy7704
Module code: GY7704 This module has been re-designed to introduce you not only to the theories of geographic visualisation, but also practical elements to support your learning.
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Geographical Visualisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/gy7704
Module code: GY7704 This module has been re-designed to introduce you not only to the theories of geographic visualisation, but also practical elements to support your learning.
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Geographical Visualisation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/gy7704
Module code: GY7704 This module has been re-designed to introduce you not only to the theories of geographic visualisation, but also practical elements to support your learning.
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Staff, fellows and volunteers
https://le.ac.uk/cite/sanctuary-seekers-unit/people
Year on year, as our University of Sanctuary activities have grown, we have been able to welcome increasing numbers of students from sanctuary seeking backgrounds to study with us, as well as a growing number of refugee-background staff members and Cara fellows to join our...
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Assassins Creed may give gamers a gripping sense of vertigo but its leaping calculations are optimistic at best
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/the-science-of-assassins-creed
The popular video game franchise 'Assassin’s Creed' often depicts characters leaping off tall buildings into piles of loose hay or straw lying on the ground or in a cart, by diving head first then executing a half-summersault to land on their back.