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New supercomputer heading for Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/new-supercomputer-heading-for-leicester
A new generation of supercomputer is coming to Leicester. The University is one of only three UK universities selected to host the supercomputers which will facilitate processing data used in industrial R&D and academic research.
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Making of Black Britain
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/10/18/making-of-black-britain/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 18, 2024 Making of Black Britain is a non-profit organization collecting stories of the resilience of ordinary people. See: https://themakingofblackbritain.org/ https://artsandculture.google.
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Hansard Corpus
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/11/06/hansard-corpus/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 6, 2015 Website containing nearly every speech in the British Parliament 1803-2005 with some linguistic analysis. Developed by the University of Glasgow. http://www.hansard-corpus.
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Disability podcasts
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2024/02/09/disability-podcasts/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 9, 2024 Professor Colin Blackmore has created a series of podcasts with British disability activists. The latest, with Professor Colin Barnes, is on the sociology of disability.
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Russian interference in US elections?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/11/13/russian-interference-in-us-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on November 13, 2017 View the recordings from Senate committee hearings into Russian interference in the 2016 elections via C-Span video library.
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Stolen Relations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/05/16/stolen-relations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 16, 2025 A digital repository about enslaved indigenous people from Brown University. Includes a collection of historical primers on Indigenous slavery in the Americas, timelines, maps and documents.
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Women in Sport Research and Innovation Hub launched
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/women-in-sport-research-and-innovation-hub-launched/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 Headed by Loughborough University the Women in Sport hub aims to cover health, sociology and sports science.
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200 paintings for 200 years
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/03/28/200-paintings-for-200-years/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 28, 2025 A chronological catalogue of in-depth reference cards for 200 of the most famous resources.
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Catalan Elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/10/05/catalan-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on October 5, 2015 Get links to resources covering the results and their implication for any possible independence from this elections blog.
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quickQuote
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/09/25/quickquote/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 25, 2015 A new open source tool from the Times which has been designed to allow journalists to upload, search and get transcriptions of quotes from online videos which they can then...