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Exciting Autumn programme launched at Attenborough Arts Centre
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/attenborough-arts-centre-autumn-programme-leicester
Attenborough Arts Centre’s new autumn season features a range of thought-provoking exhibitions, performances, and artist-led creative courses and workshops, together delivering on the organisation’s mission of ‘Art For All’.
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Britishness and diverse communities in a post-Brexit world
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/26-britishness-and-diverse-communities-in-a-post-brexit-world
Lord Parekh to discuss the crisis of British identity for University of Leicester public lecture on 1 November
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AI and copyright infringements
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2025/01/13/ai-and-copyright-infringements/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 13, 2025 Wired AI copyright case tracker Computer magazine Wired is maintaining a visualization of all the AI cases in USA. The site offers a limited number of free articles for subscribers.
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BBC 100s
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2022/01/17/bbc-100s/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 17, 2022 BBC 100 A website celebrating the anniversary of the BBC with a 100 objects (technology and props), 100 oral history clips, a timeline of events and biographies of 100 icon...
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Coming soon: 2016 US elections
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2016/01/08/coming-soon-2016-us-elections/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 8, 2016 RealClearPolitics: Election 2016 This site from RealClearPolitics offers readers daily updates on polls, interviews, speeches, and other news related to the 2016 election.
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Hate crime statistics
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/01/04/hate-crime-statistics/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 4, 2013 FBI latest figures for 2011 Compare with the UK latest figures . Projects and action plans to combat hate crime can also be found on the Home office website .
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U.S. Security-Related Agreements in Force 1955-2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/01/26/u-s-security-related-agreements-in-force-1955-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 26, 2015 New from Rand: a database covering treaties relating to all aspects of military and defence matters.
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The Great British Bake-Off, but not as we know it!
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2016/08/12/the-great-british-bake-off-but-not-as-we-know-it/
Posted by csampson in Library Special Collections on August 12, 2016 If rumour proves to be correct, the seventh series of the Great British Bake Off is due to appear on our screens towards the end of August.
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Global COVID-19 study finds higher infection risk was main driver of ethnic inequality
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/covid
A major new global study has found that higher rates of severe illness and death among ethnic minority groups during the pandemic was largely driven by a greater risk of infection.
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Mapping vanished Leicester
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2017/01/06/mapping-vanished-leicester/
More than 1000 photographs of streets and individual buildings in Leicester demolished between 1955 to 1975, mainly as a result of the postwar slum clearance programme, but also in connection with other developments.