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• Lit&Phil Society: Ernest Rutherford: from Kiwi farm boy to President of the Royal Society

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2022/11/08/litphil-society-ernest-rutherford-from-kiwi-farm-boy-to-president-of-the-royal-society/

  Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 8 November 2022 Professor Mary Fowler will give a talk to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on Monday, 14th November, about her Great Grandfather, Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics.

• Westland 100

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/01/22/westland-100/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 22, 2018 Westland100.org.uk is a good resource for social and economic historians.

• New 5-volume open-access study on Antisemitism

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/11/22/new-5-volume-open-access-study-on-antisemitism/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2021 De Gruyter have just made free to download : An End to Antisemitism! the outcome of an international high-level conference that was held in Vienna in 2018 as a collaboration...

• Race Today archive 

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/03/22/race-today-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2023 Race Today : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive   Race today was first published in 1973 by radical journalists aiming to focus and spotlight...

• The Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/the-autism-ready-libraries-toolkit/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 The Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit has been created by University of Washington iSchool to provide librarians with inclusive, research-based strategies to create inclusive environments...

• Inclusive Growth Monitor

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/05/20/inclusive-growth-monitor/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2016 New from the Joseph Rowntree Trust a tool for examining and measuring the relationship between poverty and growth .

• Family Online Safety Grid Directory update

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/03/family-online-safety-grid-directory-update/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 3, 2016 Global Resource & Information Directory (GRID ) was first launched in 2010 by the Family Online Safety Institute in partnership with UNICEF.

• VoxDev launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/30/voxdev-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 30, 2017 Free access to a great new portal   from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, the International Growth Centre and the Private Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries...

• Modern slavery

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/11/modern-slavery/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 11, 2017 The commercial company Maplethrorpe have just released their 2017 modern slavery index . You can view a summary on their website.

• Digital Terrorism and Hate Report

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/16/digital-terrorism-and-hate-report/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2022 The Simon Wiesenthal Center has released its 2022 annual   Digital Terrorism and Hate Report    It includes coverage of homophobia and transphobia and fake news...