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• Critical race theory  

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/08/16/critical-race-theory/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2022 UCLA Law school project tracking attacks on the teaching of critical race theory in the USA. Critical race theory seeks to expose systematic racism and racist cultures.

• Stonewall 50th commemoration web archive

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/stonewall-50th-commemoration-web-archive/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Just launched by Columbia University, a searchable web archive of 50 th anniversary commemorations of the Stonewall uprising. The Stonewall uprising a key event in LGBT history.

• Social media in peace mediation: a practical framework

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/06/21/social-media-in-peace-mediation-a-practical-framework/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 21, 2021 A new paper by UN DPPA Mediation Support Unit and Swiss Peace which explores the role of social media in armed conflict.

• Journal of Cultural Economy

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/02/03/journal-of-cultural-economy/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 3, 2011 We now have access to the Journal of Cultural Economy from 2008 onwards.  Find it on Leicester Elink.

• Bloomberg: effects of QE in fixed income markets

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/06/07/bloomberg-effects-of-qe-in-fixed-income-markets/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on June 7, 2013 Quantitative easing has increased the level of liquidity in financial markets and helped drive down yields in government bond markets.

• Economic impact of Ebola

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/10/20/economic-impact-ebola/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 20, 2014 The economic impact of the 2014 Ebola epidemic with short and medium term estimates for West Africa from the World Bank.

• Global slavery index

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/12/15/global-slavery-index/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 15, 2014 According to the Walk Free Foundation there are 38.5 million slaves worldwide. including 8,300 in the UK.

• Open Secrets.org

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/11/22/open-secrets-org/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 22, 2011 http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/index.php From the Center for Responsive Politics.  Includes data for the US 2012 presidential elections .

• India Real Time

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/01/13/india-real-time/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2012 http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/ Useful readable blog with contributions from staff at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswire reporters.

• Spanish Language (Beginners)

  https://le.ac.uk/modules/2026/sp1020-sp1021

  Module code: SP1020+SP1021 Our language modules for Beginners are intensive courses which bring you up to A2 Level of the common European Framework for languages (CEFR) in a year.