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How reading increases your life expectancy by 26 years!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/02/how-reading-increases-your-life-expectancy-by-26-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 2, 2018 World Book day was celebrated on Thursday What are the benefits of reading? The Reading Agency quotes a number of studies on economic, health and well-being and educational impacts...
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Trident
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/07/22/trident/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 22, 2016 The UK Parliament has voted to renew Trident Get some background on the history of this decision, its context in British foreign policy and implications by downloading the excellent...
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Fat Cat salaries: read and weep!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/fat-cat-salaries-read-and-weep/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 Fat Cat Tuesday On the 5 th January 2016 top bosses salaries FTSE CEOS will already have exceeded the average annual pay of many workers (£27,645) according to the High Pay...
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Which countries are best for children’s rights?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/06/14/which-countries-are-best-for-childrens-rights/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 14, 2017 International children’s rights foundation KidsRights and Erasmus University, Rotterdam have recently published the KidsRights Index 2017, a global ranking which charts countries’...
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Increasing domestic violence
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/03/01/increasing-domestic-violence/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 1, 2019 Two shocking reports published this week.
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Free cash point machines are disappearing
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/09/24/free-cash-point-machines-are-disappearing/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 24, 2018 Free ATMs are disappearing. Link provides monthly financial inclusion reports which map numbers and geographical locations of cash machines.
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US Election Advertising
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/us-election-advertising/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012 Electad: http://electad.com/ An independent site which claims that it posts all examples from the different campaigns online. The site also indexes polls, tweets and interviews.
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US Elections 2016
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/11/02/us-elections-2016/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 2, 2016 Political Bots: are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated...
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Political Lobbying and PR
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/political-lobbying-and-pr/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 Interesting report issued by open.secrets.
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People
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Information on the staff and researchers who contribute to The University of Leicester's School of History, Politics and International Relations.