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University of Leicester event focusses on ‘The Most Diverse Street in Britain’
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/october/narborough-road
Narborough Road is the focus of the latest community event in the University of Leicester’s Migration and Making of Leicester series. The street has famously been described as the ‘most diverse’ in Britain.
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Fiendish Friday Quiz
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/waughandwords/2014/03/07/fiendish-friday-quiz/
An Evelyn Waugh quiz originally published in the Evelyn Waugh Newsletter, 1982
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Ken Weir
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/author/khw11/
Censoring Academics works well for Publishers Posted by Ken Weir in School of Business Blog on June 18, 2014 Kenneth Weir, Lecturer in Accountancy at the School, examines the popularity of a controversial article which he, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot and Simon Lilley,...
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How the BBC is using WhatsApp
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/08/07/how-the-bbc-is-using-whatsapp/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 7, 2015 A really interesting case study and webinar made available by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers which discusses use of social media by the BBC World Service to...
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UK Archives: Empire Windrush resources
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/06/02/uk-archives-empire-windrush-resources/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 2, 2023 To mark the 75 th anniversary of the ship bringing Caribbean migrants to the UK the UK archives has released a 7-minute film about their ‘Windrush’ resources.
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Vogue Digital Archive
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/02/07/vogue-digital-archive/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2025 In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture the Vogue Digital Archive will contain over 15,000 images from 30 years of Vogue.
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Rainbow Europe 2022
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/05/20/rainbow-europe-2022/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 20, 2022 The Rainbow Map and Index produced by ILGA-Europe’s ranks 49 European countries on their legal and policy practices for LGBTI people.
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Ben and Jerry’s flavours visualisation
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2020/12/07/ben-and-jerrys-flavours-visualisation/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 7, 2020 Ben and Jerry ice cream flavours A site from data visualization experts Hesham Eissa & Lindsey Poulter which examines the range and popularity of ice cream...
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Latest from Policy Commons
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/02/07/latest-from-policy-commons/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2022 The website which contains full text grey literature from NGOs and think-tanks is developing a feature to locate statistical tables within articles and export them as csv files.
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Feminist Library Podcasts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/02/07/feminist-library-podcasts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2022 Available via Feminist_Library | Mixcloud 3 recent episodes on key topics: On Intersectional Feminism by Feminist_Library | Mixcloud Domestic Violence by Feminist_Library |...