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• Inclusive books for primary school children

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2023/09/18/inclusive-books-for-primary-school-children/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 18, 2023 Inclusive Books for children   A website that offers recommendations by age category and theme for books that are inclusive and reflect the modern world.

• Kleptocracy Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/06/17/kleptocracy-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 17, 2016 What is a kleptocracy?  Kleptocracy is a system in which well-connected elite is able to use patronage or corruption to exploit the national resources for individual gain.

• Documenting Hate News Index launched

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/08/29/documenting-hate-news-index-launched/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 29, 2017 Propublica in association with Google News Lab and a data visualization studio called Pitch Interactive has launched a site about hate crimes and bias incidents in the USA.

• Racism in British Universities

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/02/05/racism-in-british-universities/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 5, 2016 The  UCU union has just released a survey of its BME members in which shockingly 90% of those who answered reported that they had faced barriers to promotion and over 70%...

• Digital Caricatures of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (1870-71)

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/12/13/digital-caricatures-of-the-franco-prussian-war-and-the-paris-commune-1870-71/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2024 Recently made available by the Cambridge digital library at Cambridge University Library https://www.lib.cam.ac.

• Syrian Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/syrian-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 This website hopes to document and preserve evidence of human rights abuses in Syria.

• Relaunched (with expanded content): Associated Press Archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/28/relaunched-with-expanded-content-associated-press-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 28, 2012 http://www.aparchive.com/ AP Archive is the film and video archive of the Associated Press The collection includes over 1.

• Lede

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/01/24/lede/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 24, 2011 The Lede is a blog that mixes New York Times content with news stories and postings taken from blogs and citizen journalists. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.

• Playwright Kevin Laffan

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/09/03/playwright-kevin-laffan/

  Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 3, 2014 Kevin Laffan in about 2001. Kevin Laffan Archive, University of Leicester. ‘God alone knows why I keep trying to get a play on.

• Library Special Collections: Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester: Page 12

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/page/12/

  Academic and staff blogs from the University of Leicester